the shocking
news of the assassination of Lincoln
in the Theatre at Washington arrived
here to-day -- it took place Friday night
he died the next day -- Booth a brother
of the great tradgedian is suspect-
ed of being the assassin -- an attempt
to murder Seward was made at the
same time -- but it is thought he
will recover from his wounds
Gen Ripley's aid' -- called to-day
To know if we could let the Gen
Have rooms here -- "we thanked him
No" -- Sister has gone to Miss Temp
le's - ^'she' called this eve with Bethe Wallace
& Lucy Crouch
Possibly General James Wolfe Ripley (1794-1870) a veteran of the War of 1812 and Jackson's Seminole Campaign
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