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Show FAMOUS HERO DEAD. ' CHICAGO, March 1. Rupert Jones Foulkes, general foreman and oldest employe In point of service of tho Chicago Riiilways compauy and former captain of vessels on the high seas, is dead at his home here. Ho was born at sea Februarj 29, ISIS, and had ho lived four hours longer would have reached his sixteenth six-teenth quadrennial. Tho first 28 years of his life wero spent at sea. Onco in the South Pacific ocean he performed an act of bravery that was responsible for saving 200 Hve6 and earned him a gold modal from the British government. His ship had been dashed on a reef. He fastened a line to his waist, plunged Into the sea, and succeeded In reaching shore, where he established estab-lished means for saving those on board. |