Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-22
MORE HEROES ON
CARNEGIE s LIST
IUND COMMISSION ELECuLCr s
REV AWARDS FOR DEEDS -
GREAT YAL0R.
CHILDREN IN BRAVE ACTS,
Cash for Educational Purposes and Pen
sions and Medals Given 10 Twenty
six Who &re Deserving.
INDIAN GIVES HIS LIFE TO SAVE

PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 21.-Recogni-
ton Of deeds Of heroism by twcnty-siN
persons was given yesterday by the Car
nCgIe Ecru fund commission, which n is
annual meeting here awarded medals
Sl4, 100 cash and pensions aggreg&tinG
soto month. These awards were for
acts Of vaior investigated since the com
missions meeting last October.
Several children came in for recogui-
ton and Will receive cash awards for
educational purposes in addition to the
medals which are the usual reward for
deeds OF heroism. Where circumstances
showed that money was needed OF would
be of great benefit such 4 prize was
granted by the commission.
Among those rewarded by thc pOmiS-
SION are two full-hlooded Indians living
On government land.
Indian Gives Life to Save.
Peter Deqn. aged -. a Mohave IN
dian OF Mellen, Ariz., Oh July IL, 1907.
with the assistance Of George Saltamah
aged 3S, also 4 Mohaye Indian, saved
Mrs. W. W. Mcclure, aged %, and her
son, W. W. McCuue, Jr., aged q, of
Parker, AriZ., from drowning when they
had fallen into the Colorado river from
the deck of the steamboat on which the
two rescuers were employed. The gang
plank was thrown into the river and
the indians jumped in after it. They
succeeded in getting the woman and the
boy upon the plank, when Dean left it.
presumably to reduce the burden, and
started toward the shcre. lie was
drowned. Beulah Dean, widow of the
drowned man, was awarded a bronze
medal and death benefits of $50 IA
month, with So month additional for
her son. Saltamah was given Il bronze
medal and $1,000 to be applied toward
the purchase of a farm.
Put on the Pension List.
Persons awarded pensions are chiefly
widows of men dying in attempts to save
life. They include:
MARY +. NJ. SKINNER widow OF Fran
els G. Skinner, aged - years of SaliuevilIc
Ohio, silver medal and $40 month. and
80 month additional for each of her six
children. Skinner went into a mine in
which an explosion had just occurred IN
the attempt ut rescue. He was killed by
SARAH II. KILLIKELLY, aged 40 of
Plttsburg, Pa, silver medal and SO Il
month for saving the life of Mary Il. Xii
Miss kigallon'S dress had caught fire
HELEN L. STAPPENBECK of San An
tonic, Texas, widow of Charles Stappcu-
beck. who lost his life at San Antonio try
ing TO stop runaway horse, silver medal
and SO a month.
LULU V. BARNES of Pioneer, Cal. wild
oW of Charles +. Barnes, who lost his life
by suffocation in an effort to rescue ia
ward Heagland from the inside of an SOUi'-
gallon oil tank, silver medal and 500 a
month and 50 4 month added once for each
separate child.
MARY E. COLLINS of New York. widow
of Peter Collins, who died in an effort to
save 4 man overcome by gas, silver medal
and $40 a month, with 50 for each indie
pendent child under is years.
ROSA \. DINNER of New Orleans. La.
widow of Frank Dinner, who lost his life
rescuing man overcome by sewer gas DC
tOber %, 1907, silver medal and $50 Il
month for each dependent child.
ROSlNA :. ARNHOLDT, widow of
Adolph Arnholdt, who lost his life in Phil-
adelphia, 500 month, silver medal ana
So a month for each child.
ELLEN 7. SWEENEY, widow of Arthur
j. Sweeney who jumped into Il sulphuric
acid tank at Buffalo, n. Y, September TO-
1907, and lifted William J. Callahan to
a month, a silver medal and 50 to each
child
Edward Mcconnell Of ParnaSsus, Pa
drowned trying to save a boy, silver medal
CATHERINE SCIIWENDiNGER, widow
of John Schwendinger of Dubuque, la, sill
yer medal. 500 Il month ana 50 Il month to
each child.
Children Proved Heroes.
Youngsters who are on the lisr as
heroes and get substantial reward for
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DIoLZe Hle e uiu %IV1 1 iUl fiuIiI
". Mckenzie. aged Z. who. while playing
in the water, ran into q mole beyond his
depth on August -; I9oS. - .,.-,
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