The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-24
OVER THE STATE.

Charles Westly Beale, Secretsr ~ of the
Edgefield IL Nashv lie Building Il Loan
Association, accidently shot himself
with a pistol last Friday, and died in an
hour.
The Union City Times, from Mellow
ellis county, Obion,t fervently prays;
"May the devil and McCune protect
John! No honest man VIII"
Franklin Review and Journal: We
do not think Mr.. Mcdowell has been,
by any means, a consistent man politi-
calIy, but we don't care to get further
than his record in Tennessee, for our
proof of the fact. We lived in Dyer
County when Mr.. Mcdowell was elected
to the State Senate from Dyer, ObiOn
and Lake. The Democracy elected him
ON q railroad commission platform.
When the question came up he voted
against it and thus went back on the
platform on which he had been elected.
We know also, that in the TOiler, dur
ing the tendency of railroad legislation
during the last General Assembly, he
opposed every measure looking to the
control of the railroads in the State, and
that right in the face of the Ocala plat
form of the Farmers Alliance, which
declared in favor of railroad regulation,
both State and National. These and
other similar inconsistencies convince
us that he cannot be placed on any po-
litical question so that there Is no
danger of his wabling on the gudgeonv
We have no motive to do Mr.. Mcdowell
wrong. Neither do we critieise him be-
cause he is President of the Farmers
Alliance. sFor that Organization we
have nothing but goodwill, although
we believe 1t has made mistakes. 1t is
with Mr.. Mcdowell as a Democratic
ohice-holder and politician simply that
we have TO deal; and as such we take
the liberty to criticise him freely, just
rs We do and have done others whom
we have had reason to believe would
not do to trust in high places.
VIM. Gray, night clerk at the Duncan
Hotel, Nashville, was found dead in his
bed last Sunday morning. His death
was from heart diseas.
Hense Fry recovered damages to the
amount of $500 from the Nashville q
Gallatin Turnpike Company in the re-
cent session of the Circuit Court at that
place. It was for losses sustained in a
wreck several years since, when his
thresher and horses fell from an en-
bankment that was unprotected, de-
molishing the thresher and killing one
of the horses.
There is a report in railroad circles
that the unfinished Midland railroad
Will soon be sold and work will be re-
sumed. .#f e.
Leslie Buford, the son and deputy of
James L. Buford, late County Trustee
of Williamson county, was unani-
mously elected his successor by the
Justices of the County Court in special
session and his bond was accepted and
approved. He is quite young man
but of good and steady habits, and will
be the support of bis mother and her
family.
Two little boys, one the son of A. c.
HerndOn, of Kennedy, KY, the other
son of Brady Martin, of Montgomery
county, we're very badly burned about
the face and hands Saturday, by the
explosion of a pound of powder while
loading shells.
. Gilbert Parks, of the real estate firm
of Blair, Parkes &c CO., Nashville, sui
cided by shooting himself through the
BRAIN with pistol, last Tuesday night.
He was drunk when he committed the
deed. He was a son of Mr.. Leonard
Parks, and married leading society
lady, Miss Emma Joe McCrory, about
eighteen months ago, who, with an in
FAINT child, survives him. He was an
society man, member Of
the Hermitage Club, and lived beyond
his means.