Salvation Army Lass Locked Up in A Trunk

1909

HANNIBAL, Missouri — While the Salvation Army people were holding a street meeting a man entered their headquarters where Miss Millie Stocking, aged 16, was left in charge of a baby. Threatening her life if she made an outcry, he cut down a clothesline, bound it around her neck, tightly tied her arms and feet, chucked her in a three and one-half by two foot trunk, shut the lid and left the premises. When the army people returned the girl was nearly dead from suffocation and suspension of blood circulation, but was soon resuscitated. The reason for the man's strange actions are a puzzle. Miss Stocking's parents reside in St. Louis.


Hubby Gone 30 Years

LAPORTE, Indiana — Mourned as dead for thirty years George Medsker of Marion, Indiana, will be reunited the coming week with his family, living at Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania. Medsker was a Civil War veteran. He disappeared thirty years ago without apparent reason or cause, and for years, with his mind blank, he drifted about the country. He finally became an inmate of the Marion Soldiers' Home. Mrs. Medsker recently made application for a pension as a soldier's widow, and an investigation by the Government established the residence of the veteran.


Want to Buy A Town? There's One For Sale

SALINA, Kansas — Shipton, a busy little village in this county, northwest of Salina, will be sold at auction Oct. 20, 1909. The village is on the farm of W. S. Irwin, and when he sells his farm, personal property and farm belongings the village will go with the rest. A band will furnish music. This is the first time a townsite has been sold under the hammer in this part of the State. Shipton is on the Union Pacific Railroad and has a depot, a store building, an elevator and several residences, and much business is transacted there.