The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-06

Meyer, aged 5. from electric shock
from a fallen light wire at Silverdale,
Pa, October 3, 1912
William A. Salisbury, Albany. Ore,
for helping to save Archie o. Ramsden
from drowning at Albany, Ore, July
16. 1911.
Clair B. Baker. 1881 Belmont
street, Portland, Ore, for helping to
save Ramsden and Salisbury in the
foregoing case.
Attack Man WELDING Razor.
James A. Parkhurst, Bradford, Pa.
a baggagemaster, for saving Mrs. Mel
lie E. Shoemaker from assassination
by man who pursued her with an
open razor, at Riverside Junction, N.
Y, August 4, 1913.
William E. True, Stonington, Ind.
laborer. for saving De Lone and
Martha y. Menaugh from drowning at
Lawrenceport, Ind, September 4, 1911.
John J. HUT, Cherry Valley, Mass,
a carpenter, for saving nine-year-old
Louise Champoux from drowning at
Cherry Valley, January 81, 1915.
E. Sylvester Mahan, r. D. No. 3.
Lewis, Ind, a farmer for saving John
Bemis from suffocation in a well, at
Lewis, July IA. 1914.
Charles o. Warrington, Fayetteville,
Ark, merchant, for the rescue of
several persons from a runaway at
Fayetteville, April 80, 1915.
L. Winston Chew, Neosho, Mo-, a
stationary engineer, for helping the
rescue of Robert S. Sathers and Noah
Goss from suffocation in a mine at
Joplin, Mo-, August IL, 1912.
Heroic Act at McCallaster, Kan.
Frederick Hellenga, deceased, for
attempting to save Leo Annabelle, a
schoolboy, and Benjamin Annabelle, a
chauffeur, from drowning in Lake
Michigan at New Buffalo. Mich, July
5, 1915. Medal and $40 a month, with
additional sums for children, to widow
at Three Oaks, Mich.
John L. Long, deceased, for at
tempting to save Harold w. Symes, a
schoolboy, from drowning at Mccall
laster. Kan, August 10, 1915. Medal
and S35 a month, with additional sums
for children, to widow at Overland
Park, Kan.
Andrew Surab, deceased, for at
tempting to save John ]. Carpenter
from drowning, at Clifton Heights
February IT. 1916. Medal and $25 a
month with additional sums for chill
dren, to widow, Clifton Heights. Pa.
Russell w. Engledove, deceased, for
saving Henry T. Nelson from suffoca-
ton in manhole at Paris. Texas,
October 20, 1914. Medal and s25 a
month to widow, III North Twenty
fourth street. Paris, Texas.
Another Kansas Hero.
Daniel ]. Doherty, s Brook St., Wo-
burn, Mass, for attempting to save
Catherine Trainor, and J. Henry Room
ey. from drowning at Woburn in a
canoe accident, August 10, 1913.
Leonard Williams, Niotaze, Kan, for
attempting to save Joseph H. Crisp
when latter was seized with cerebro
spinal meningitis in the oil fields at
Nowata, Okla.
Walter J. Beck. deceased, for at
tempting to save Anna D. Johnson
from drowning at Kennebunk Beach,
Me-, August 26. 1915. Medal to moth
err. 247 Main St. Orange. N. ].
C. Ericsson Trip, deceased, for at
tempting to save Joseph A. Hutton,
from drowning. at New Milford. Conn.
August 1. 1915. Medal to mother, IT
Wethersfield Av., Hartford. Conn.
Thomas Hughes, deceased, for at
tempting to save a fellow school boy
]. Vernon Albrecht. from drowning at
Monessen, Pa, June 7. 1915. Medal
to father, Monessen, Pa.
E. Stuart Sarber deceased, for at
tempting to save Bernice NJ. Gibson,
from drowning in a canoe accident