Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-05-26


Corrsspondsnes q the n. Y. Tribune.
So On Orr. Penn, Nay Is.
A. ~ public Journals have been and are
Elm nlled with paragraphs concerning
0pelhro eDunoellon With the oil business, Il
~ peOve Interesting 10 loyal people to
1oofn TIT The woe departmeut have Their.
0uGkly uznnnined THE mattts, end the follow.
lne ofe TIE facts established:
J. WJlkso Booth never wae IN the Oh -.
gleoo g RDamylvonh but ence, and that
Vao 1Aot su00oe. He stayed ten days u
~ eotrolsum House IN OH CITY, and then
o1neSoA. = b aid, See New York. He ID
1nooo e. SelAom0 end thence 70 Buffalo,
WAeoco e b supposed be went into Canada.
He nsstt purchased slagls barrel Of oil
1nyWhus q ths whole oil territory Of shii
0tsas, nsvsr purchased, owned o. rented I
11aes, 1eIl, = paessl Of ground In The State
~ i ~ ia ssissis saasSs q interest
ofany kindi Not solitary individual On
. 6,ni vhe evse sold him anything, or
eso6ed 6 harteesd viii. him foe anythies,
So ~ q raeions. And The most angular
eiruuuut6nco 3 that not single individual
"a y found Il The al regions Of Pennsyl.
vania Vho evse ~ Booth here and knew
hin q the tine!
AZ soon a. Il Vas published that Booth
had bssn here - specializing, and not be-
fore tAis, one might hear hundreds q shall
lew-psAsd fellows swelling themselves up
With gaseous importance. enchanting that
they knew Booth veil, and he'd met him
hssS . hundred times, witnesaed his pur-
eAass, and I'll such stu6. But - soon as
ths detectives Of the war ONCE reached here
end oemmsnced Arresting these fellows, and
Wsre about sending them to Washington %
Vwitosssas, theif Ga bags sUddenly collapsed,
and, pale and trembling, they begged to Be
lot %, mying that they were only talking
One man On the cara the other night sid
very smphakicalls, aud 30 ~ 70 b heard BY
u, thA& Booth owned . well near Titusville,
and that be knew al about L. The detect
i've tausdiAtsly stepped across the car and
aid y ~ the very man they were after,
and that hs would remain il the cars en-
sevte 20 Warrington Is witness in the tri.
q. Ths fellow turned deadly pale, bic IN
df JAW shaking like IN aspen boush, and
= oooa ~ he could speak he declared that
- keew nething himself. only what hs had
heaed boatman on OIL Creek oay. and that
49, AesVW 49, O&OS1D00 . OU111Uh 0QO
could 1T identify him non. Thus has il
oeen With 81 ths rumors and I'll the reports
. 70 his "oil business" and Just here let
- ~ hat the mon knowing hs he'd no
( ee:ansss hees, 1t once nav another meaaios
a ~ bsothsr's expression, sOil busincss
ana ~ fall Of Richmond
An9thR Ne was started, doubtless by in.
sss.eesd parties, that Booth had written with
: cssmsnd on pane Of glass, 1t the McHsn-
Mouse 10 Headville, hat President Lin.
GAN died Of poison, "a. No such inscrip.
- waswzitt1n y Booth, and % esch paee
eaee caA b found. II The idoa WAS NOT
s . by interested parties, . 10 mors
-. eeeeaas. 4 kaA II sfigia 10 The brain
/ 80 sesea - II dsGsctiyes have already
e tsoefns only to b addsd that the rec.
= - haeiaB bedl thoroughly sxanisei, !,
- - apPeae thas !. Wilkes Dsu1h ever
$3.50 eay ~ perssnal, q oinsd propsr,
!, VAIN r. liaits Il any e g oil coun