Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — SPEEDY JUSTICE BY LABOR .BOARD. [ARTICLE]

SPEEDY JUSTICE BY LABOR .BOARD.

Settles Two Death Cases In a Month —Widows Awarded $2,329 and $2,110, Respectively.

The state industrial board has made award's in effecting settlements of two death claim cases. The promptness with Which accident cases are settled through the administration of the new workmen’s compensation act, in comparison with the damage suit method, was illustrated in these two cases, one death having occurred one month ago and the other only two weeks ago. The awards were made in the cases of Henry Reid, who died from an injury .suffered in an accident at Laporte, and of Jacob Myers, who was killed while in the employ of the City of Fort Wayne. Reid’s widow, who is left with three small children, was awarded compensation aggregating $2,329 and in addition the employer is to pay medical charges. Jacob Myers, 63 years old, was employed by the water works depart-ment-of the city of Fort Wayne, when he fell into a well, a fractured skull resulting in his death. His widow, by the award of the industrial board, is to receive compensation for 300 weeks at the rate of $6.70 a week, the amount representing 55 per cent of Myers’ average weekly wage. The compensation with SIOO added for burial expenses, aggregates $2,110.