The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-19
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., December IL.

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senatorial question was very properly
left to the people. This puts it be-
fore the primaries. The convention
will be held remarkably early. There
were some who thought it ought to
have been held in March, but it is
pointed out that March Is a bad month
for campaigning and that there will be
three and a half months n a trifie
more before the August election, which
will give time to completely canvass
the state. There will be a great num-
Der of speakers in the campaign. The
committee acted with great wisdom in
recommending that no congressional
conventions be held until after the
August election. This will keep the
matter of the constitutional amend
ment entirely free from national poll
tics and make it a clear-cut issue In
other words, everything is to be made
subordinate to the question of the
amendment, until the people have
voted on the latter.
The continuation of the hearing be-
fore Judge Moore of the fertilizer
freight rate cases was a feature of to-
day. 1t is in regard to the reduction
on all the lines except the Carolina
Central of the SeabOard Air Line. The
matter as to the rate on the Carolina
Central is in the federal courts.
Today the legislative JOINT commit
tee, with Senator NJ. II. Justice as
chairman, began the annual
ton of the offices of the state treas
urer and auditor. 1t will occupy a
week.
The attorney general tells me the
supreme court will have to pass again
on the question of control of the public
schools. Cases will come UP for the
various counties. The f~usiOnists terms
expire June 1st, and if they get in they
can only hold until that time. There
are seven counties in which the old or
fusion boards did not retire. though
the state superintendent of public in
struction advised them that they
should do so and obey the Legislature.
These seven counties are DAVE, AShe,
Yadhn, Forsyth, Granville, Sampson
and Chatham. The state superintend-
ent today said there would be con-
fusion in these counties, as in most OF
them both the old n new boards
have been acting.
State Geologist Holmes returned to-
day from a tour of inspection or the
iron mine near Wilson's Mills. john
ston county, which, after some three
quarters Of a century of 1dleness, was
recently %reopened. He is much pleas
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the quality. The ore will be used by
the Greensboro steel and iron furnace
The suit to make the North Caro-
lima pay Philip Williams AVerltt, now
in the insane asylum here, $4,000 as fees
and expenses as Governor RusselPs
counsel in the suit to break the lease
of the North Carolina railway to the
Southern, is a peculiar one, made more
so by his having returned his fees. 1t
&c o1JaUaH that tho ClIit made him
crazy.
The recruiting office here will be
maintained, Captain Z. B. Vance says,
with a branch at Greensboro. The
Asheville branch is closed and the ser
geant in charge is ordered here. White
recruits are wanted for all branches of
the service and for the hospital corps.
All save $4,000 of the money neces-
sary to start another knitting mill
here has been subscribed.
E. K. Bryan, Esq, f Wilmington,
was here today and was before the su-
preme court, where he made a motion
on behalf of A. E. Mcdowell. in the
case of Robinson VS.. Mcdowell. for
restitution Of property.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleig, N. c., December Is.
J. A. Watts came here today from
Tennessee ito get the rewards, $3.50 state
and 5000 United States, for the capture
of Bill Honeycutt, the Mitchell county
outlaw who murdered a deputy mar
shall in that county last month. Hon
eycutt fed the state, but not until he
or his friends had murdered two men
who witnessed his crime. He went to
Tennessee and there directed some of
his friends TO swear out a warrant for
him charging him with murder in that
state. He was tried and discharged
and Their thought he was safe. He was
in a cabin on a mountain near John
SON City when one night last week
Watts INC three other men crept up
on him, Honeycutt n his friends
had six rifles standing against a wall.
Watts and his posse rushed in and go
between Honeycutt and the rifles. Then
H~oneycutt said, Boys, you've got me-
and surrendered. He is 10Y in Jail at
Greensboro. Some years g he muir
dered a man in Tennessee, was con-
victed Of manslaughter and was speed
lily pardoned out of the penitentiary.
Watts was today paid the two rewards.
Arrangements are being made for the
purchase of the building now a market
and city hall, which faces the principal
street, by the Masons, who propose to
remove it and erect on it's site a much
larger building, for a temple. 1t is
learned that the city officials are
willing that the arrangement be made.
With the money from the sale a new
market and city hall can be built on a
site which is more suitable. The Ma
sons are taking up the project with
usual zeal, and architects are
preparing designs for a temple.
The Randall Etching Company, with
G.. Randall, the we'll known North
Carolina artist at it's head, has been
formed here. Randall has marked
ability as an etcher.
Mr.. Randall has made a proposition
to the board of public buildings to
paint the history of the state; that is,
it's greatest features, in a series OF
panels in the rotunda of the capitol,
which is admirably adapted for the
He is so true and so enthu-
siastic a North Carolinian that he pro-
poses to make no charge, save only
his expenses, desiring to leave the
work as a memorial.
Among today's arrivals were Jacob
Battle, Rocky Mount; w. b. Schulken,
Whiteville; j. X. Morrisey, Clinton.
The Raleigh Ice n Electric Com
pany, chartered here yesterday, will
obtain it's power from Neuse river at
Milburnie, six miles from here. 1t has
purchased the water power there. The
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