Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-25
WIN CARNEGIE MEDALS
TWENTY-FOUR REWARDED FOR
BRAVERY BY COMMISSION.
Full Number of Awards Now 1875 and
ii21 Have Been Refused Medals
and Money.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. 19.-Twenty-
four persons throughout the country re
ceiyed awards for bravery Friday from
the Carnegie hero commission The full
number of awards is now 126, and 1921
persons have been refused either money
or medals. For the first time since the
beginning Of the hero fund a negro, John
Il. Hill of Atlanta, Ga, received an
award.
Following are the awards:
BREEN, WILLIAM j., 81 years old, New
York city; awarded bronze medal: saved
Christopher Powers from drowning III u
slip IN the Hudson river.
PROGNZER. PHIL c.. "a years old, fire
man, New York city; bronze medal; saved
Mrs Annie Gearty from drowning in At
lantic ocean at CUney Island.
HARRIS, LEON, 10 years Old, Pensacola,
Fla; bronze medal and 5000 for cduca-
tional purposes; saved Bernard john
sou from drowning in Pensacola bay.
MAHER, THOMAS F., 80 years old, Bos-
ton, Mass; bronze medal and $500 10
liquidate mortgage on his property; saved
William Fitzgerald, Il boy, from drowning
i'll dorchester bay.
JOHN Z HALL, 80 years old negro, At
lanta, Ga; bronze medal and 500 to re
lmburSc HIM OH account OF the loss SuS-
tanned by being injured. Hall saved S1y-
efaI persons during runaway accident
He was recovering from an operation ana
was injured again
RALPH +. pERLIN, - years old Santa
Rosa Island, Fla; bronze medal; saved
three from drowning in Pensacola bay.
CHARLES WEISS. - years old, Bath
Beach, y. y; bronze medal and 5000 for
educational purposes; saved an unknown
woman from drowning in GraVeSend bay.
FREDERICK II. uANkER, II year old,
EIenyille, n y: silver medal and $1,000
for educational purposes; saved Lemons
I. Gray, Il companion, from drowning III
Beerklll creek.
GABRIEL FARRELL JR 20 years Old.
Somcrvillc, Mass; bronze medal and 5000
for educational purposes; saved two men
from drowning in Charles river, Boston.
JAMES r. FARRELL. u years old, a
brother of Gabriel, assisted in the above
rescue and week later died from ty-
phoid fever contracted, it is said, from
water in Charles river; bronze medal
awarded to his father.
NELS L. NELSON. % years old. Boston.
Mass, silver medal; rescued Adam Hag-
gerty from pumping room of Boston Attn
letic association, which was filled with
gas; IIaggcrty died the next day.
The following three men assisted Mel
son in the rescue Of Haggerty and were
awarded bronze medals:
WILLIAM J. HIGGINS, 80 years old, Bos-
ton.
THOMAS LAWRENCE, b years old, Bos-
ton.
THOMAS f. TAYOR, 16 years old, Boston
MkS. ROSA Is. SlllA1ILbR, 81 years ola,
New York city, silver medal; saved Miss
Ida WciSsman of Brooklyn from drowning
in Long IsIaEd Sound at North Beach.
JOSEPH GRADY. II years old, New York
city, silver medal; saved three children
from cremation in apartment at East one
Hundred and Twenty third street, New
York.
CHARLES W. HAIGIIT, 3S years old. West
Winfield, n. Y, silver medal; saved child
from being run over by train.
JOHN c. BURNS, A. years old. Brooklyn.
silver medal; saved Julia Puiller, 80 years
old, from drowning in Atlantic ocean at
Seagate, n. u
CAROLINE STANTON, 81 years Old.
Mount Vernon, n. Y, major Salvation
army; silver medal and $500 to reimburse
her for loss sustained on account of in
juries; saved child in a runaway accI-
dent and was herself seriously injured.
ROBERT II. CANFIELD, 30 years old.
East Orange, N j., silver medal awarded
to young mans father; Garfield was
drowned while attempting to rescue sew
era young ladies who had fallen out of Il
boat in Oquaga, n. Y.
NELSON V. SMITH, 81 years old, Law
renee, n. Y. silver medal; saved woman
from being run over by train at Mine
ola, \. Y.
DAVID WATERMAN, GO years old, Roch-
ester y. y, silver medal awarded to his
brother, Waterman saved Mrs. Margaret
Weber from death by train. but was ia
tally injured himself dying the next day.
LOCHLIN NJ WYNN, 30 years old. Annis-
ton, Ala, silver medal; saved three men
from drowning i'll Spencer'S mill pond,
Clayton, Ala.
The list is the largest in the history
of the commission.