Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-17
HEROES ARE REWARDED
Carnegie Commission Meets and
Makes Awards OF Medals
and Money
CASES, ONLY TEN AWARDS
Four-Fifths Of the Claims for Recog-
milton For Deeds Of Heroism Are
R,ejeoted-Husband Of Woman Who
r'ied Trying to Save Negro Child
Given Medal and $1,000.

Pittsburg, Oct, 17.-The Carnegie
hero fund commission held an Interest,"
ing meeting here yesterday and made
ten awards. In gathering the data for
these awards George F. tcampsey,
special agent of the commission, travel
ed 10000 miles and looked into fifty
cases, forty of which were rejected.
The ten cases taken UP by tie COM
mission were passed on unan mously.
Miss Maude Titus, a higi school
girl of Newark, N. j., daughter OF a
prslcticing physician, was awarded
silver medal for life saving July 4,
1904. At the risk OF her OWL life she
saved her chum, Laura V. Reifsnyder
of East Orange, N. j., from drowning.
Saves Party of Thr'e.
Arthur A. Ross, a hatmaker OF Fox
boro, Mass, was given a medal for
displaying great presence of mind and
saving several lives near his home
April 10, 1905.
One of the most peculiar cases is
that of Mr.. Crabbe of CopptTs Land
Ing, Va. He is given bronze medal
and $1,000 to educate his children be-
cause Of the beroism Of his wife, who
| lost her life Feb. II, 1905. Mrs. Crabbe
had seen colored boy, Ralph Yound,
90 through the ice on the Great VII
comico river and rushed to save him.
She too. broke through the ice and was
carried under and drowned. She left
four small children and the family is
very poor.
Hero's Widow Gets Award.
| Daniel Davis, a coal miner, aged 70,
or Sherodsville, o., lost his Life in the
rescue of his brother-in- William
Monroe. For his heroism the COM
Inlission awarded his wifi. q silver
medal and $1,000.
1 Wade H. Plummer, aged IS, on May
IL, 1904, on Lynch's river, near Lamar.
Is. c., saved companion John NJ.
Gibson, aged 10, from droM ming after
desperate struggle. The commission
awarded him a silver medal and 5000
| to be devoted to educational purposes.
Medal For Preventing Suicide.
| A silver medal was awarded to
Michael "A. Doyle. a ship laoorer, aged
81, of Quebec. On April %, 1904, Miss
Charlotte L. De Kastner ,'lged II, a
student, attempted suicide by jumping
/ INTO Cne 81. Lawrence TlVST L Ic WcCtcT
was between thirty and thilty-five feet
deep and filled with floating ice. DOYLE
plunged into the icy water after the
girl and after getting her to the sur
face the second time both were pulled
10 shore by rope thrown 20 Doyle.
Miss Anna Margaret Cunningham.
aged 20, nurse at the Savannah hos
]oital, Savannah, Ga, was awarded a
bronze medal for her part in the at
tempt to save from drowning on May
26, 1905, Walker Cults aged 81, an at
| torney of Savannah.
4 The commission awarded a bronze
medal to William c. Bruno, aged IL,
Ia laborer, Of sandusky. o. for saving
from drowning George p. Ptanner, aged
9, on July 8, 1904.
| Arthur j. Gottschalk, aged "a, a
storekeeper of Lancaster, II. r, was
awarded bronze medal for saving the
life of 49, Joseph Webster, aged So.
of Detroit
George F. Russell, aged "a, a ship
filter. of Croton, Conn, was awarded a
bronze medal for saving the lives OF
three schoolboys whose b,at capsized
with them off New London, Conn, on
July 20, 1904.