Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — A DESPERATE FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

A DESPERATE FIGHT.

Col. Goodloe and Col. Swope Engage in a Murderous Encounter. Two prominent Republican politicians of Lexington, Ky., Col. W. C. Goodloe, at present a member of the National Repub lican Committee, and Col. A. M. Swope, at one time an Internal Revenue Collector, and who was regarded as an able man, met at the postofilce of their city, where each had gone to take his mail, and after a few words were spoken Swope drew his pistol and Goodloe a clasp knife, and each began simultaneously an attack upon the ether. Swope’s first shot was leveled at Goodloe’s head, but his pistol was knocked asideandthe bullet entered Goodloe’s abdomen. Goodloe’s knifo, however, did quick work, and after firing one more shot Swope sank to the floor and died instantly, having received thirteen wounds by nis opponent’s knife. GOodloe was assisted home and hopes for his recovery are entertained. The quarrel which led to the tight was a political one and was supposed to have been amicably settled. Later. —Col. Goodloe lingered until 10 •’clock Sunday when he died from the effects of the wound received from Col. Swope. He died peacefully and painlessly, surrounded by his family. He was baptized in the Episcopal church Sunday morning. Goodloe's statement of the difficulty, after he was told that he could not livo, makes Swope tbe aggressor, as he drew and shot Goodloe just as the latter £ot his knife open , Goodloe said that feeling he had received a death wound he cut until he fell. Hundreds of telegrams of sympathy have been received by the family. Among them from W. W. Dudley, J. S. Clarkson and M. S. Quay. The city of Lexington is in deepest mourning. a Wicked National Waste. The prairie chicken will follow the buffalo and the Indian and disappear forever from the face of the earth. The eager sportsman has decreed it, and the game laws are of no avail. We have got to be content with beef aud •anned oyster#.— N. Y. World.