The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-27
Hero Fund Commission Announces
Its List Of Heroes Who Are
Entitled to Medals.
MONEY IS ALSO DEALT OUT
Recipients Are Persons Who Dis
tinguished Themselves For
Bravery in Some Manner.

negie Hero Fund Commission to-
night announced further list of
awards for heroic acts. The list.
with medal awarded, etc., is as fol-
lows:
William j. Reidy, bronze medal
Reidy, carpenter. saved Abraham
Hildebrand, laborer. from suffoca-
ton. Gresham, Ore, November s.,
1904.
Charles r. Lilly, bronze medal
and 5000 to liquidate his indebted
ness. Lilly, a station master.
saved NJ. Frances Gooding, aged
four, from being run over by a
train. Grafton, w. Va. May 4, 1912.
Edgar H. Sherman, bronze medal
and 1900 toward liquidating his
indebtedness. Sherman, grocer,
rescued Mabel McCalley from run !
away. Marion. Iowa, March 3, 1911
jeremiah Frain, bronze medal and
$1,000 toward liquidating mortgage
on his property. Frain, boilermak-
or, saved Charles l.. Davis from suf-
location. Rankin, Pa, June 2t
1907.
Lillamae Formby, bronze medal
and 81 900, as needed. Miss Form
by, aged twenty-five, school teach
er. saved Ethel r. Y'Blood, aged
nineteen, from being run over by q
train, Waldo. Ark, August Q, 1912.
Ralph E. Maxey, bronze medal
and $1,000, as needed. Maxey,
baggage master, saved Harriet Il,
Malcolm and Iottie EEollenberg
from being run over by train.
Monmouth, Ill, May 12, 1908.
Samuel Nasser. bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed. Nasser, weaver,
saved Edward s. Whelan, aged four,
from burning, Elmira, N. Y, April
IL, 1912
Thomas P. Cahill, bronze medal
and $1,000, as needed. Cahill, as.
sistant superintendent of life
insurance company, saved Isabella
MGndel, aged three, from being run
over by street car, Pittsburg. Pa,
April 81, 1912. Cahill sprang into
the street and crouched between the
rails to rescue the little girl, who
had wandered upon the track. With
the fender OF the car but four feet
away, he grabbed Isabella, jerked
her hacwkard. and threw himself off
the track just as the car passed.
David Phillips, bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed. Phillips, mine
10 al
aged III, from being run over by a
train, Snowden, Pa, June 11,1912.
william j.. Arthur, bronze media!
and $1,000. as needed. Arthur. a
salesman, saved Benjamin J. Vet
rome from drowning. Erie, Pa,
August 25. 1912.
Bernard G. King, bronze medal
and $1,000, as needed. King, a
clerk, saved Ralph C. Brown, boy.
from drowning, Warren, Pa, Decem-
ber 2S, 1912.
Alexander f. Shearer, bronze
medal and $1,000, as needed
Shearer, lamp tender, saved
Francis l.. and zura L. Macdonald
aged three and eleven, respectively
from burning, Dingville, w. Va,
September 26, 1912.
Alvin NJ, Grafton, bronze medal
and $1,000, as needed. Grafton, a
farmer. saved Thomas Griffin,
school boy, and Robert Conyers,
farmer, from drowning, Sidney,
: Ark, July 4, 1912.
Elliott d. Nichols, Jr., bronze
medal and 81 200, as needed.
Nichols, school boy. saved F. Ber-
nice Fleek. aged seventeen, from
drowning, Watts Flats, N. Y, July
29,, 1906.
William M. Orr, bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed Orr, sawmill
operator, saved w. Mcdonald Nor
riss, aged ten, from drowning
Glade Spring, Va. March 16, 1912
James Reynolds. bronze medal
.. and $1,000 to liauidate mortgage or
his property. Reynolds, foreman
of linemen, saved John c. Jackson
lineman, from electric shock, New
Haven. Conn, September /. 1908.
Joseph r. Holland, bronze media
and $4,000. as needed, for educa
tional purposes. Holland, aget
nineteen, clerk, attempted to save
Hazel NJ. Murray, aged nineteen
from drowning, Erie, Pa, Augus
II, 1912.
Sheldon v. Clarke. bronze media
and $4,000, as needed. for educa
tional purposes. Clarke. aged sew
enteen, student, saved ]. ByroT
CONCLUDED on Pays Two.)