Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-22
Bad Blood in Kentucky.

al alteration with James Duane Liv-
ingstou, formerly of New York city, in
the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, KY,
yesterday evening. Livingston was
standing at the news stand reading u
paper, when Desha Breckenridge came
ia and bought a package of cigarettes.
Livingston spoke to Desha, and ex-
tended his hand, saying: SIT is all over
now, we ought to be friends. Shake
hands,"
Breckenridge, with an angry look on
his face, replied: mo, you one-horse
scoundrel, L will not take your hand.
You profess to be 81 mans friend, then
stab him in the back" Livingston re.
piled to this by saying that be had
done nothing of the kind. Then Brock
inridge called him a ID liar. Liv-
ingston then struck at Desha and
knocked his glasses off, following this
up with a blow Oh the neck. Desha
reached for his hip pocket and Instant
ly there flashed in the air the long
bright blade of q big dirk. Both men
were pale as death. Livingston, in a
moment of desperation, grabbed at the
tglittering blade, which Breckenridge
had aimed at his heart. The knife
went between the second and third
| fingers of Livingston's right hand, cut
ting the third finger to the bone. The
cold steel sent a shudder through Llv-
ingston's frame, and he grasped his
| right hand with his left in order to stop
the flow of blood. Then Breckenridge
seemed to desire no more blood, and
gave Livingston two strong kicks. The
| hotel clerks and several b%ystanders
rushed in and seized Breckenridge. and
at the same instant Matt Lane, a strong
Breckenridge man, ran up and said he
would take q hand in helping Desha.
Two witnesses say that Lane also
hourished a big knife, but Lane denies
this. A friend then took Livingston
home in a buggy, and Desha Breckin-
ridge went to his rooms across the
street.
Just before the trouble occurred with
Livingston, Desha and Lane, who were
walking up Main street in front Of
Breckenridge's headquarters, met Judge
Kinkead, who made several speeches
during the campaign denouncing Col.
Breckenridge. Desha Breckinridg e said
to Judge Kinkead that the election was
over and he wanted to tell him that he
was q id liar He also applied
several other vile epithets to the judge,
who replied that he was unarmed and
did not want t have any difficulty in
the open streets. Desha told him to
20 and arm himself, and he would meet
him anywhere OR at any time. He re-
peated this several times.
Then Lane, who is a comparative
stranger in Lexington, having recently
gone there from Mt. Sterling, said, adj
dressing the Judge $50 this is Judge
Kinkead, is it When you said that
decent people would not entertsin Col.
Breckenridge, you lied. My sister en-.
tertained him in Woodford county, and
1 say to you that you are Id liar"
judge Kinkead again said that he
wanted no trouble on the street, and
that he was not armed, when Lane
threw his coat open and said he was
not armed either, and then repeated
the language he had previously used to
he Judge. Kinkhead then walked Oh
out the street toward his home.
By this time q number of strong
Owens men began to crowd into the
lobby of the hotel. One of Col. Brock
inridge's friends, fearing that there
would be trouble with Lane, got ].
B .eckinridge Wiley, a strong Breckin-
ridge supporter, to 60 in and pursuade
Lane to leave the hotel. At first Lane
declined to go, but after taking a drink
with Wiley, he listened to Villey's ad-
vice and wlnt home. Then the Owens
m N began to talk and one of them,
WHO has the reputation of not knowing
what fear is, said IF Desha Breckin-
+ dye and his friends intend to extermi-
nate all the men who worked for Owens,
a, they seem towant to do, they will have
to enlarge the cemetery. This sort OF
thing won't do, no matter now sore
they are. They may just as we'll take
their medicine"
j. Duane Livingston is o man Of
about thirty years. He was a strong
Ovens man. He is from New York
city, and it is said that he there belong
ed to Tammany. When seen, while
his wound was being dressed, be said:
Il took Desha's abuse and made no at
tempt to resent it until he called me a
liar. Then l had to hit him. 1 think
[ saved myself from a fatal stab by
grabbing his knife"
Judge Kinkead is agreat-grandson of
Isaac Shelby, the first Governor ofKen
lucky, and is the first cousin OF John
I. Shelby, Col. B~reckinridge's law part
uer, who slapped Attorney Johnson in
in the face during the famous Pollard
Trial. Judge Kinkead is about forty
two years Of age. He has always been
considered o man of the highest ply
steal courage and everybody expects
| that more blood will be shed before
| this trouble is over.
SOUTHWARK REPUDIATED.-Major
Joseph Walker, Wray T. Knight and
Beverly Taylor, constituting a majority
of the republican committee of the Srd