{"id":2727,"date":"2014-10-18T01:42:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T06:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2014-10-18T01:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T06:42:05","slug":"shooting-affray-in-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/shooting-affray-in-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Affray in Graham (1891)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th ult., a serious accident, and one that may prove fatal, occurred at a logging camp on the Tennessee river, this county, in which a young man by the name of Quiet, of Calhoun, Tenn., was shot by <strong>Alex JENKINS<\/strong>, of this county. \u00a0It seems from what we can learn of the particulars, that <strong>JENKINS<\/strong> had been book-keeper for <strong>Mr. SHERMAN<\/strong>, the man who had charge of the logging contract, and in settling with <strong>SHERMAN<\/strong> claimed &lt;&#8230;&gt;3 more than <strong>SHERMAN<\/strong> thought was right. \u00a0The difference soon brought on hot words, and finally <strong>SHERMAN<\/strong> struck <strong>JENKINS<\/strong> with his fist, whereupon <strong>JENKINS<\/strong> drew his pistol and fired at <strong>SHERMAN<\/strong>, the ball glancing his ear and striking Quiet in the breast, ranging toward the left shoulder. \u00a0<strong>JENKINS<\/strong> is still at large. \u00a0Whisky had a great deal to with the row. \u00a0&#8212; T.M.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Cherokee Scout, 10 November 1891, page 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th ult., a serious accident, and one that may prove fatal, occurred at a logging camp on the Tennessee river, this county, in which a young man by the name of Quiet, of Calhoun, Tenn., was shot by Alex JENKINS, of this county. \u00a0It seems from what we can learn of the particulars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,2460,2474],"tags":[2475],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherokee","category-cherokee-scout","category-tennessee","tag-jenkins-alex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-HZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}