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SAD NEWS! !■. • *Assassinated,SEWARD ALSO STABBED,J. WHkes Booth, the actor Lincoln's Assassinator.♦♦BOOTH fS'TlX.JL. AT LARGEGREAT EXCITEMENT -PREVAILS 1!r* # *;r^ *. * * . • -The follow ind dispatches were receivedby ua. oft Saturday last and published itian extra. This extra we sent out to allof our subscribers tbrdbgh the countywhb could be reached on that,day.Since that time, intelligence has been.received that Secretary Seward and hisson .Frederick are still alive, and that. ’• ' *.hopes are entertained of their recovery. .Up to the time of our going'ta press, the assassin,- Booth, has not been captured.The sad news sent a thrilf ‘of horror to the- hearts of every person in this community. Business in Jefferson was suspended, the Court House draped with em-.• • • iblems of moumiog, and Sags we;e floating at half-mast, in token of the ; nationJsgreat loss-. 'i/.. Washington, .April 15th. \ -President Lincoln was .at Ford’s then-, A . . » • *ter last night, -when -a- man entered his. box and shot him through the' head. The- - t . • .hall ehetred -the back of the h'eaddsiid came out at his temple. The; man then jumped out of the-box window, ran across the stage and escaped. ; •About the-'fiabie time man went tov f - • '■ • f tSecretary', Seward’s house, .pretending t0 have a prescription for Seward, He got to his room and- stabbed him in, the neckand breast. Seward’s son and several of♦ •the nurses were wounded in the struggle. It I* feared that his last injuries will prove fatal. .There is no hope for Lincoln although he was alive at last reports. r't The assassin in both cases is supposed to be J. Wilkes Booth, a-prominent actor and rabid secessionist.
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Jefferson Banner
Jefferson, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Apr 19, 1865
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