St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-09
kentucky Politicians Meet on
Federal Ground and Set
tie Old Scores.
Col. Swope. Internal Revenue
Collector, Carved by
Col. GoOdlOe.
The Latter Lies at Death S
Door From a Bullet
Wound.
President Harrison Is Visibly
Affected by News Of !
the Battle.

LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. Sat 1:40
O'Clock this afternoon Col. William Cas-
sius Goodloe, collector of internal reve-
nue. of the Seventeenth Kentucky dis
trict, and Col. Armsted NJ. Swope, met
in the postoffice corridor. Both men
were after the mail that was in their
lock-bOXes, which are rather close to-
gether. They approached these boxes
almost at the same instant: and, when
each saw who the other was, they glared
at each other fercely, and one OF the
two, it cannot be discovered which, eX-
claimed: "You spoke to me; you in
suited me-" This was followed by
some angry words from the other
man, exactly what they were
instant they Strengthened up and each
drew weapon at the same moment
SwOpe a pistol and Goodloe a clasp
knife. As soon as the weapons were
drawn, Swope fired. and Goodloe
knocked the pistol down as it went off.
the ball entering his abdomen on the
right side. Goodloe then
BEGAN STABBING HIS OPPONENT
in the breast with his knife, which forced
Swope backwards toward the money Or
der drawer, they having begun tie fight
about midway the lobby. After several
blows had been struck by Goodloe,
Swope fired again, missing Goodloe. In
a moment after firing the second shot,
Col. Swope fell on his face within about
ten feet of the door leading into the
money order department, and weltering
in his blood, died almost instantly. On
his person were found thirteen wounds,
they being on his back, arms and in his
oct VrNt Il fol af+ Ill
SwOpe, Col. GoodlOe walked to phySi-
clans Office where his wounds were ex-
amined. He was perfectly cool and
made disposition of his property in
case of death. The cause of the diff
Guilty was statement made in the Re-
publican convention of. May l, 1888, by
Col. Goodloe, that fully two-thirds of
the Fayette county delegation in the
convention did mot speak to Swope.
Col. A. NJ. Swope was about fifty years
old and native of Kentucky. He prac-
ticed law at Paris, KY, until the begin
ming of the war, when he joined the
Union army and rose to the rank of
colonel, serving on Gen. BuellS staff.
After the war he went to Lexington
and resumed the practice of his profes-
sion. He has held
MANY POSITIONS OF TRUST
within the gift of the national admins
trations, and was regarded as one of the
ableSt men in his party. In the last
Kentucky Republican convention he
made strong fight for Senator Sher-
man before that body, but was unsuc-
cessful in his attempt TO have the dele
CATION instructed for the senator, being
opposed to Col. GoodlOe In 1877 Mr..
Swope was appointed collector of in
ternal revenue for the Seventh Ken
lucky district, and resigned in 1888. He
was an applicant for commissioner of
internal revenue under President Harri-
son, but was defeated. it is claimed,
through the enmity of Col. GOodloe.
Hon. William Cassius Goodloe was born
in Madison county in 1S41. His great
grandfather was Gen. Green Clay,
who commanded BRIGADE in the North
western campaign under Gen. Harris
on. In 1861 he accompanied his uncle,
Cassius M. Clay, to Russia, where he
was sent as minister by President
Lincoln. Mr.. Goodloe acted as secre-
tary of the legation until 1862, when he
returned and joined the Union army as
assistant adjutant general of volunteers.
Serving until 1864, when he resigned
and commenced the practice of law in
Lexington. In 1868 he was elected a
delegate to the national Republican con-
ventien, and was appointed member
of the committee to notify Gen. Grant
of his nomination. In 1873 he was
elected to the state senate and the fol-
lowing winter was nominated by the
Republican caucus for United States
senator.
The only persons who saw the fight
were Postmaster McChesney, who was
just Issuing money order, William K.
Shelby, who was in the money order
lobby, and Harry Swift, a postal clerk.
They agree substantially upon the state
ments of the report sent the press from
Lexington. Shelby aided GOOdlOe in
reaching physicians off ,e. Goodloe
is now resting easy, and may possibly
recover.
GOODLoE is RESTING EASY.
LEXINGTON, KY. Nov. S.-Col. Good
loe at II O'Clock was resting easy in his
room at the Phoenix hotel. His physi-
clans say his condition is more hopeful.
He is not under arrest. Public sympa-
thy is about equally divided, but uni
verSal sorrow is expressed. The cOrre-
spondence between the men occurred
about the middle of May, 1888. 1t was
very brief, and simply withdrew the re-
marks each had made about the other.
The correspondence is not at present
obtainable. Since that trouble thev
have never spoken to each other, and
since their differences were settled by
the correspondence they have never
spoken of each other, each acting as if
the other had never existed.