Hanford Journal Hanford, Kings Co., California Friday, 27 MARCH 1896 ************************************ DEATH -- LANDERS -- In Huron, Sunday morning, March 22, 1896, infant son of John LANDERS. ------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL PARAGRAPHS -- -Judge Jacobs, Tuesday, granted a divorce to Mrs. Nellie RODGERS from Joseph RODGERS. -Oscar H. EATON and family, of Madera, are visiting with H. MOFFIT and family of Dallas. Mrs. EATON is a daughter of Mr.&Mrs. H. MOFFIT. -Emma TUNZE arrived in Visalia last Wednesday direct from Germany. She is a sister of Robert TUNZE of this city, who had not seen her for 16 years and who was greatly surprised at her arrival in America as he did not know she intended leaving the old country. -Miss Brosia MORTON, of Traver, is dangerously ill at the Western Lodging house in this city. C.W. BAIRD and family, after visiting relatives in Bakersfield, have moved to Truckee, Cal. There is quite a difference between the climate of Hanford and Truckee, but it will no doubt prove conducive to health. Hanford has furnished a good sized addition recently to the population of Truckee. JOHN JOHNSON, of this county, who is serving a sentence in Folsom prison is learning the blacksmith trade. He gained 12 pounds in weight within a short time after his incarceration and the sentence is apparently doing him good physically as well as morally. -Edward HOGLE was badly burned while shoeing a foundered horse. He was burning the soreness out of the horse's hoof with turpentine, when he accident spilt some of the turpentine on his hands and it caught fire, making a very painful burn. DEPUTY CONSTABLE W. DELASHMUTT of Selma was in Hanford yesterday, looking for Jap OLDHAM, who is wanted as a witness in the case against his brother Wm. OLDHAM. Mr. DELASHMUTT was here Tuesday and arrested William OLDHAM, who is charged with robbing an Alaska tourist named PHELPS in Selma last week. His trial comes off in the Justice Court at Selma today and Jap is wanted as a witness. THE CHOIR which will render Millard's mass in B flat at the Catholic church on Easter Sunday is composed of: Mrs. James MANASSE, soprano Mrs. D.L. PHILLIPS, alto Theodore GEBHARDT, tenor J.M. HICKS, bass E. KAUNTZE, organist LOUD CRIES of "Mart! Mart!" on Front St., about 6 o'clock last evening, attracted quite a crowd. The words were probably intended for "murder" and issued from the bloody lips of an elderly drunk, who had been in a fight in SPINKS' saloon. A negro named WALKER cut the old man's face some with his burly fist and then the old man was hustled out onto the sidewalk. Transcribed by Dee Sardoch To see more old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/