Daily Milwaukee News (Newspaper) - April 17, 1865, Milwaukee, Wisconsin BY LYON MILWAUKEE APRIL i gee tatert Crime at Wing ton COMPLETE PARTICULARS OF THE SORROWFUL TRAGEDY THE WHOLE NATION IN MOURNING condition of Seward and The Flight and pursuit of the Murderers iS PRESIDENT MEETING OF THE CABINET romor of be capture of Booth Newspaper Offices mobbed in San Francisco Embargo placed on all travel oat of Tokens of sympathy from the British Provinces and arrests ia New MUSS OF April announce ment of president Lincolns death the most profound Business was entirely lu twenty minutes af ter the news was made every busi ness house and public as if by com mon closed its doors the whole city is draped in mourning flags on all public buildings are displayed at and ap At a public meeting held in the capitol square at 12 after prayer and sin addresses were made by A Wright senator Hendricks and April 15 of president Lincolns death reached us as the proces from honor of recent victories was being When the news was read tbe procession broke and with arms reversed and bands playing funeral music they slowly returned to their Intense horror at the untimely death of the president fills all lojal Great preparations had been made by ters and other government as well as private in decorating and their offices and All are now shrouded in business is en tirely and the streets thronged with sad and As the facts of the murder become more bitter feel ings of reta seem to prevail against the Minute gons are bei g fired from the April of the as of president Lincoln produced here the most profound sorrow and great in Business was entirely flags displayed at and the whole city draped in The streets were thronged all day with sad and solemn Brutus brother of Wilkes was announced to appear at Pikes It is understood lie v s compelled to leave the All places cl are closed Rumors prevail of several persons having b en killed for expressions of joy at Lin but it is believed they are April in ef the assassination and president Lincoln caused the greatest ex and public business is everywhere entirely displayed at half mast from bells were and the whole city in Amass meeting of is called for The city presents most solemn The blow is be a April news ef the death of r resident Lincoln cast gloom over the Business ii the city draped in and bells tilled most of the r April news of the assassinations at Washington caused a profound sensation i The flags on the custom American the shipping in the harbor and in the city were displayed at half mast Stores and places of by Americans are The feeling of grief by the Canadian people is and it is contemplated giving some public April of has issued the following address to the public of his state April federal city is shrouded in In the midst of joy and triumph nation ia suddenly called to deplore the loss of its greatest and truest foutly murdered by ous Ericken down iin fullness of in the hearts of the Abraham president of the United an honest exalted pa the friend of the poor and the deliverer of big has been gath ered to a That the people of lowi who and loved the fallen so generously sustained holy cause he appropriate ly testify their sorrow over this national 3 invite them to assemble in their respective places of worship on the day of at ten oclock for humiliation and prayer b Almighty and also the ithin the and all secular pended on it hat and that all public ces be draped in mourning for the period of thirty April announcement of the assassination of Prest Lincoln has produced in thU community the utmost grief with a feeling that stern justice must be served to all the rebels at an early hour All business places were closed public and many residen ces are draped in An immense meeting was held in front of the city hall after prayer by Daf resolutions appropriate to the sad oc were Or ftp o has issued a proclamation et logistic of the illustrious dead he says it is becoming and proper that the people should devote a time to fasting and sorrow for the and only abstains from filing a day for that solemn observ ance in the expectation thait the authorities at Washington will issue a proclamation fix ing a time when the nation can express in a suitable manner tbe sense ot its lamentable While we mourn over the dead and condole with the beloved family let us swear never to give up the contest until the headed mobster of slavery and is effectually destroyed and buried beyond Let the free and loyal men of Michigan stand firm in this hour of our The blood our beloved martyr and death of our noble and heroic will nerve us with more than mortal energy in accomplishing this great April the announce ment of president the par of Nova Scotia and the flags on the government tbe tbe American consulate and the American vessels in port were at A most deep sympathy pervades the minds of the friends of the The blockade runner Lamb was gaily decked with April city ig draped in mourning and all the business places are The most intense grief and indignation prevail among the April city is per with almost a Sabbaths Stores and shops are and crape is rapidly at all Broadway is hong with gloomy and on the principal avenues the scene is the Wall Broad William South and other strictly business streets are covered with mourning The ping in the harbor have flags at and many are in All the per buildings are and great crowds of sorrow stricken people are gath ered in front of their bulletin Tbe great meeting of merchants in Wall street wad the most impressive ever held Prayer was offered by the King and Judge Pierpont addressed the coun selling utmost support to the new dent under the trying circumstances under which he assumes his new Butler addressed saying great and good man had gone to join the sages and patriots of the j He drove life and strength of the rebel We must now crush out tbe soul of is able to deal with the therefore hj man i f Dickinson addressed the saying all that remained for slavery toi do was to show its and lure by this Peck aW addressed the meeting The resolutions pay high tribute to the pat Integrity find love of country evinced by the grief at the horrible bow sively to the will of Welles was arrested open ly rejoicing over the death of president and sent to the penitentiary by Judge Dow BOOTHS WITH THE April who left yesterday for New and who was informed of the assassination as he was leaving Philadelphia this arrived here in a special train about neon and im mediately proceeded to the presidents The second extra of The Evening Sfar saya provost marshal of the defenses of the north of the i engaged in taking testimony all of which fixes the assassination on Wilkes Judge Olin of the supremo court of the District of and Justice are also engaged today at the police Lend quarters on Tenth in taking the tes timony oT a large number of Tyrrel of last night proceeded to the National where Booth has been and lock possession of his trunk in which was found a colonels military dress two boxes of cartridges and a pUn of Wll of which are now in the possession of the military au One of these letters bearing the date of Aid seems to implicate The writer speaks of the mysteri ous affair in which you are engaged and urges Booth to proceed to Richmond atd as certain the views of the authorities there upon the The writer of the letter endeavors to dissuade Booth carrying bis into execution at that rime for the reason as the writer that the government had its suspicions The writer of the letter seems to have been implicated with Booth in the af fair referred as he informs in the letter that he would prefer to express bis views and then goes oh to say that he WFS out of had no and would be compelled to leave as bis family were desirous that he should dissolve his with This letter 13 written on note in a small neat and simply bears the signature of At the cabinet meeting which lasted Over two the future policy of the government towards was dis the beet of feeling Il is stated that it was determined to adopt a very liberal policy as was recommended by the It is said that this meeting was the most held for two year the president exhibiting throughout that magnanimity and kindness of heart which has characterized his treatment of re and which has been so illy on their One of the members of the cabinet remarked to a friend that he met at the the government was today stronger than it had been for three years SEW TOBR NEW April The steamship sailed at this afternoon with full official despatches to oar ministers at foreign ports from Bishop Potter has issued and address to all clergymen appointing prayers to be read tomorrow and recommending the clothing of the churches in All courts of this city Brooklyn promptly adjourned this Committees of the chamber of city aldermen an other public bodies have been joined to arrange for pub lie funeral HOB IK SAH April mob just entered the publication offices of the Demo cratic News Monitor and and emptied their contents into the streets amid the applause of an immense A large body of armed police was ordered but arrived toe late to prevent these acts of The of offices is April Edwin Booth has been plunged Into the deepest grief by the desperate act of his and it is tell ing fearfully upon his sensitive To night he was to have taken his farewell of the Boston public for a is said he has expressed a determination never tp ap pear the stage xm April Commercial states We have a source perfectly reliable nation among of s Span ish house in this stated that on today the greatest would be deceived that had ever been to the publ The fact of to clerks of the The Tribunes epe was morning near Fort ment was domma ifl by this says Wilkes nt 9 oclock this on tbe burg He cnr pick was arrested to This is net any dis patches from Wa up to 9 oclock Saturday eveni The same special Seward has given a the It h ert person from Frederick Seward ia the broken fragments of the f A neph ew in this of tne fami toys I have left Sewards of the establishment of All tbe members of the cabinet Mr are now in attendance the I have seen he and Frederick were both ST Secy of War president is tea that description of he was a differ i most critical con His wounds bns lost much bloo is e not He ut no arteries badly in two He ia Secretary Sew een cut if he had e has been inform ch Frederick Seward ia places about the It is feared he will ards throat would net rolled out of ed of Lincolns Another private disp Stward is out of not dangerously won Several meetings have been and were by prominent the expression being to hold the rebel to a just account 5 JT theic Two men expressing respect for Davis were driven a newspaper count and the they seeking safety io TAn autopsy was body of Barnes and eminent is covered with the ith white A q over the breast Abraham of the Ap held this afternoon dent Lincoln by assisted by col The coffin is of u with black cloth latter being silver plate upon tbe bears the following i seventeenth April To Diz The dent continues and is Secretary Seward remains without Frederick skull ia fractured in two besides a severe cut on the The attendant is still bat Major Sewards wound ia not It is now ascertained with reasonable cer tainty that two assassins were engaged in the horrible Wilkea Booth being the one who shot the The is a companion of his whose is not but whose description is EO clear that Be can hardly It ap pears from a letter found in Booths trunk that the ru order was planned before the 4th of bat fell through then because the accomplice backed out until Richmond could be Booth and his accomplice were at the livery stable at 6 oclock last and left there with their horses about 10 or shortly before that It would seem that they had for several days been watching their but for some unknown reason it was not carried into until last One elf them has evidently made his way to the other has not yet been E Secy of April It is re ported here this morning that President Lincoln die J at WAE April 15 Abraham Lincoln died this morning at U2 minutes after 7 Secy of 9 46 m Secreta ry Seward has jut M Sesy of ed born died April The remains have locks of hair were r dents for tbe remains being n A few from the to the the AprS day no one is o leave the city by J rail conveyance or and the issuing of passes from the of tbe de of has been Suspend ed by April 15 The Memphis that hw From our Edition April To Major General about at Fords the while retiring ia his with Mrsi Rogers and Major was by an who and approached Tbe assassin then tbe brand I a large and bade his escape in the rear Tbe pistol ball entered of and penetrated pearly through the The wonnd is has been insensible I and is now a the same the same or and under pr was shown to the inflict the throat and two o that the wounds The president since he was t assassin j whether apart ce of a pre sick rushed or or thred in hoped be My apprehension is will prive The nurse alarmed who was in an adjo tened to the door of he met the one or more very dan of is doubt it is not probable that will live the Frederick he thers ro im where inflicted him The Geni Grant and w at the theatre this to Burlington at 6 o cabinet meeting al the but he started this eve At oh C rant was t e state oi the coun try and the speedy j eace was The was cheer anif ke very kladly of TOOTHER April A most terrible unparalleled in the history of the occurred a few before 11 p m to night at Fords President Lincoln and Lincoln were seated in a private box on the right hand of the witnessing the last act of Our American At a moment when it was unusually quiet the quick report of a pistol was and a man sprang out of the box on to the come ten feet with a knife gleaming in his ran across the stage out into a side mounted a and rode like lightning up tenth The audience for a moment seemed par for glancing at the box of the dent it was seen that he had f alien back as if killed or lu one moment the terrible reality burst spon the aa they rushed toward the stage and saw the fainting form of the president brought dowa the narrow when it was discover ed that he bad been the breast and badly if not mortally Accompanied by he was taken across the street into a private resi and there immediately oared Pen fails to scene of excite The of the assassination was realized with the fact that the asnas sin had The streets all round the theater were blocked up with and all along tbe avenue it has sped like wild Immediately steps were taken to fer ret oat the The police were noti and every body bat as yet to ne On people who noticed the with whiskers and that he the dress circle and passed around to the entrance of the private without waiting a he fired at the back of the dent through the closed door he then rush ed into the same box through another open two boxes being thrown into one and jumped on the As the pistol hole hi the doon f howt the fact of fir ing through the closed while the pistol dropped on the shows that it a The plot the man knew well the secret way behind the scenes of the theater to get oak forhe escaped the observation of those on the who the man says that the is the The evidence is at this late and excited to that effect I visited the state five after the scene crowded with The the assassin as he jumped I am meage sic per edt and Welles or
