Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-02

summon help, but while talking she
tainted. She was taken to the hospital,
where she seemed in a fair way to
recover, but had a relapse on January
4, and died on the night Of January 6.
Thought Only of the Children.
Before death Miss Brown stated that
she at all times realized her danger,
but when she called for the door to be
closed, leaving her with Mr.. Sterling,
she thought only of his little children
in the kitchen, and was satisfied that
in his delirium he intended to shoot
them down. She was ready to die,
she said, satisfied she had saved the
lives of the little ones. Sterling was
exonerated from all blame by the coro-
ner's jury.
Five nurses in responsible positions
in Washington gave 1t as their opinion
that Mary Brown, who had just been
graduated, had done only what was
in her line of duty, while one thought
she had exceeded her duty in Crap
ping with the mailman when she
could have escaped after being shot.
Washington physicians also thought
great heroism. While the Carnegie
Hero commission shows no favoritism,
it seems plain that 1t considers the
case Of Mary Brown an exceptional
one.
Little Justin Mccarthy, a Washing
ton schoolhoy, will have an education
on which the Carnegie Hero commits
sion will expend $4,000 or as much of
it as may be needed. Justin will also
have a bronze hero medal for saving
Gladys M. Lowd, schoolgirl of thir-
teen, from drowning August 13, 1908.
Mccarthy had been enjoying him
self propelling the girl and two boys
about on a plank in pool of water
Is feet deep, when the girl fell off.
Mccarthy was so frightened that he
dropped the pole which he might have
extended to the drowning girl, and an
other boy who had a pole forgot to
extend 1t, while the third boy Jumped
off the plank and swan ashore.
OCT SuI 10 odVC Will
Justin, who was twelve years of age
and weighed IS pounds dived off tho
plank to the girls aid, coming up in
front Of her She at once threw her
arms about him ana they sank to-
gether. Under the water Justin man
aged to break her hold and they cams
to the surface. The girl was able to
grasp the plank on which one boy was
yet perched in terror and boosted by
Mccarthy from the water she man.
aged to scramble on and was poled TO
shore. Mccarthy WINS too exhausted
to reach shore, and had to be assist
ed. The boy says he wants to be an
architect and his parents have turned
over to the hero commission the de-
tails of his education.
Rare presence of mind was exer-
cised by John H. Thompson, a rail-
road fireman of Ashtabula, O., In res
cuing from drowning his engineer,
James Ray, who weighed 230 pounds.
Their train had gone into the Beaver
river near Rock Point, Pa, or the
night Of March 1, 1910. Both engineer
and fireman managed to jump clear
OF their engine as the wreck went
down, but Thompson's left wrist was
caught and SO badly hurt that he
could scarcely swim.
He had almost reached the bank
when he heard a call for help from
Ray who was not a good swimmer,
and who was badly handicapped by
his weight in the swift nine-mile cur
rent Thompson turned back for him,
extending his injured left wrist. keep
ing his good right hand to use in
case Ray should try a olinch with him.