Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — DISAPPOINTED BOOMERS. [ARTICLE]

DISAPPOINTED BOOMERS.

Hundreds of Families Find Themselves destitute- Much Suffering. A dispatch from Arkansas City of Monday the 6th says: The suffering of the baffled boomers finds most prominent evidence along this northern border. Monday 1,000 wagons in the march down and 800 wagons on the way back were counted. The groves in the Arkansas and Walnut river valleys that offered camps fir the boomers before the descent are filling again with the returning unfortunates. There are hundreds of families among them who have sold everything to make the trip, and, now have nothing left. The sight of men, women and children, who are thus unprovided for and desolate with the mere frames of horses surviving to drag them along, is pitiful. Guthriestill holds the majority of population and is not yet symmetrically formed. Oklahoma City is the mcst promising town site. Capt. Crouch, the old successor to boomer Payne, was, Saturday, elected mayor, defeating a preacher, whose platform was against gambling and whigky. As long as the latter 1b excluded, sb it is now, serious tro ub 1 e cannot occur in Oklahoma. -

HAWES WILL HANG. A jury at Birmingham, '.Ala., Saturday, found Hawes guilty of murder of his wife and daughter, and sentenced him to death. It will be remembert-xL that the bodies of his wife and daughter were iound in a lake near Birmingham, weighted down, and the skull of his wife crashed. Hawes had married another woman tJue day after the murders. When the body" of his daughter was discovered he was arrested and jailed. The finding of the body of Mrs. Hawes aroused the people to intense frenzy, and it was determined to lynch Hawes. On the morning of December 9, a mob, which had been surging about the jail, made an attack. Sheriff Smith repeatedly warned the crowd that he would order the troops to fire if the attack was made. No heed was taken by the maddened throng, and at the command of the Sheriff the Gatling gun was turned on tne crowd and fired. Twelve killed and fifteen wounded was the result of the firing.

l>ea(h of Chairman Barn am. Hon. William H. Barnum, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, died at Lime Rock, Conn., on the 30th. He was born in Connecticut, Sept. 17, 1818. He was educated at the public schools, and in 1836 went into business. He was lor many" years engaged in the manufacture of car wheels and in the production of iron from ore. He was elected a member of the Connecticut Legislature in 1852, was a delegate to the Union National Convention in Philadelphia in 1866, was sent to Congress as a Democrat in the same year, and retained his seat by successive re-elec-tions till 187 t», in which year he was elected to the United States Senate to fill the term of Qrrift S. Ferry, deceased, ending March 4, 1879. Much of Mr. Barnum’s prominence was due to his long service as Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, from which poeition be retired at the opening ot the last Presidential campaign-

She Know. Youth*’ Companion. “I can give you gaa if you are afraid the pain will be too great to endure,” said a dentist to an elderly colored woman who had come to have several teeth extracted. “No.sah; nosah!” she said, shilling her head emphatically; “yon don’t gib me no gas an’ hab me git np out’n dat cheer en walk house dead, no, sab! I reads de newspapahsl”