The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
Philadelphia Girls Deco.

Phi!adelphians are particularly inter
ested IN the silver medal that will come
to Miss Lucy Ernst. daughter of Select
Councilman Bernhard Ernest, of the For
ty-third Ward. She lives at 2922 North
Sixth street.
Mss Ernst is not yet 81 years Did. She
is to be married soon. Two years age
the Ernst family and their friends, the
S~choenhuts, We're spending the summer
at the Porter's Lake Hunting and Fish
ing club. A party of the young folk. in
Guiding Miss Ernst a1d Harry Il
than she, We're walking through a copse
oack OF the clubhouse, Schoenhut, who
was In his shirt sleeves, stopped to cut
"a branch from a fallen sapling, and, as
ne dld so, a large rattlesnake bit him
above the right elbow.
MISS Ernst seized the knife that he
dropped, cut away the sleeve and anply-
ing her mouth to the wound sucked ont
the poison. TIL venom of 4 rattlesnake
IS not o stomach poison, but Miss Ernest
knew that she was running a great risl,
because of the fact that she had a fever
sore on Per mouth at the time, and the
probabilities were that she would he
come tnoculated drought it.
IN spite of that fact, she sucked tho
wound clean and was herself III in he'd
Tor several Gays as a result of her hero
ISM While young Schoenhut felt no bad
eileclS from the snake bite
Civ Widow Medal.
Mrs. Sarah A. Marshall, of New Ken
singfcn, Pa, was granted a silver medal
and $500 cash, May "a, 1905, for the bravery
of her husband, Gideon x. Marshal Who
:ost his life on March %, 1905, AZ Spring
dale, Allegheny county.
thaFshaIl, VINO was a carpenter. was en-
ployed about a we'll which was heinz
eri!ied ON the property of Thomas ID.
Ate.,oh. Arthur TRULY was at the bottom
of the we'll. when he was overcome bv n
sudden accumulation of gas.
remand P.lette went into the woll TO
NiFupS 8 assistance, but he, too. was inn
nedlateiN overcome. Knowing that bot,
men were Unconscious at the bottom of
,ne vel Marshall, without a moments
hesitation, went to their assistance.
He met the same fate as the two other
men, his body being recovered later after
safety appliances had been preceded which
MADE 1t possible for men to reach TIE hot
tom. Marshal left his widow ana three
children In poor circumstances. There
was a mortgage on their home. and tho
money was given to Equiaate the hort
age
Get Brothers Medal.
At the May award In 1904 Nc. ror,
Williams was given a silver medal for a
brave act performed by her brother
\ gorge d. Williams, a labcrer. or Eliz,,
18th, Pa
On October a. 1901, Williams started
!ross the iron bridge between Elizabeth
Ia West Elizabeth, when he heard the
'7eams of George j. Weigle, a d%raughts-
IAN. who was hanging suspended htSL In
The air from a cross-piece.
Some electric cables were susn.,ndsd h,,
the >b~ridgework there, and Weigle Was be-
ing slowly burned to death by the cur
rent. Williams climbed up to Weiele's
assistance, but was shocked and knocked
TO the bridge floor beneath.
He sustained a fractured skull and died
several hours afterward. We!sle was
dead when his body was rescued. II. had
gone to his dangerous position for the
purpose of getting ideas on future work.
Williams had no person dependent upon
him, and SO no money was given.
Pay OFF Mans Mortgage.
AT the same award William Watkins.
e coal miner of Edwardsville, Luzerne
county, Pa, Was given a silver medal and
$1.2D in cash to liquidate u mortgage on
his home.
On September 8. 1904, an explosion oc-
Cured in an entry of the Kingston mines
OF the Kingston Coal company, where
Joseph Winchent, Br.nley r. Davis, Hees
j. Williams and Gabriel Koloski were
working, about $50 feet below the surface.
All were rendered helpless except Ko-
loski. who made his escape unass:sted.