Show tragic close to career of edward carmack one of the most figures of the south in a P stol duel which was the out come of caust cr t sms of po lit cal opponent former sen ator from tennessee s instantly killed nashville tenn foi mer senator adward carmack editor ol 01 the ten ness eean vas shot and killed mon day afternoon about 4 clock on sev anth avenue north in front of the polk flats by robin cooper a son ol 01 colonel duncan cooper mr car nack was go ng north on seventh venue in front of the flats and ool anel cooper and his son robin were approaching seenah avenue on union street soon after they came in sight of one another the shooting bean rob n coope it is said fir ing two shots and senator carmack colonel cooper it is said drew his pistol but d d not fire senator carmack fell to the ground dying instantly rob n cooper was in the right shoulder but aas i ot badly hurt it is dundei stood that the trouble Is I 1 cne of the results of a recent demo cratic gubernatorial primary in which carmack as defeated carmack had euince he became editor ot the ten ness eean been quite caustic in anti using what he called the democratic roach ne and had printed several edi donals about colonel cooper the fast few das it is as fretted colonel cooper notified car mad that those editorial criticisms must cease monday morning an ether editorial referring to the col onel appeared in the paper and this is supposed to been the imme diate cause of the trouble former united states senator ed ward W carmack was born near springs sumner county tennessee november 6 1858 he had an academic education studied law practiced in columbia tenn end was a member of the legislature in 1884 he was a delegate to the national democratic convent on of and a member of congress from the tenth congressional district of tennessee he served with t on in the united states senate for aix ears being defeated for reelect tion in the primary a little oyer a I 1 ear ago by former governor robert taylor last cpr ng he opposed governor patterson for the democratic guber nasonal nom nation championing the cause of state wide prohibition he as defeated shortly after his defeat mr car mack was offered the editorship of the nashville Tenness eean he ac cepter and since then has been at the head of that paper |