Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — More Carnegie Heroes. [ARTICLE]

More Carnegie Heroes.

The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has made medal and money awards to twenty-four more persons shown to have performed exceptional service in the saving of life. The list included, for the first time, s negro, John Hill of Atlanta. The largest award was that of a gold medal and $3,000 to A. J. Hedger, superintendent of schools of Finney coonty, Kan. He ran two miles and entered n well seventy-two feet deep, where he worked two hours with shovel to save tbs Ufa of a mb caught in n cave-in.