The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-10-19
AWARD DESPITE
HOSPITAL CHANGE
Refusal OF Patient To Be Operated
Upon Does Not Affect Com
pensatIon.
Harrisburg

pital TO another where operations took
place. Death occurred in both in
stances.
In the case Of Jorn and Annie Cser-
mack. Pittsburgh. against the H. c.
Frick Coke Company, the claimants
were stepfather and mother and de-
pendents of an employe of the com.
pany. The mother refused to permit
an operation which was urged and had
the man removed to another hospital
where an operation took place. 1t is
held that the refusal to consent to an
operation does not amount to refusal
Of medical or surgical aid and does not
defeat right Of compensation, the de-
cision saying in one part there is no
obligation on the part Of the injured
man to submit himself to an operation,
the result Of which Is so problematical
that his life is at stake"
In the second case, Christina Sims
Windber VS.. The Homer City Coal G.
Coke Company, the deceased refused
an operation and insisted upon being
removed to another hospital, where a
bone was transplanted. The question
was whether the man died as a direct
result of the original injury or because
of his refusal to be operated upon at
the first hospital. Mr.. Mackey holds
that the claimant is entitled to COM
pensation, saying that there is mo evi.
dence to show but that the same re-
suit would have followed an operation
earlier at the first hospital
Burn 100000 Acres.
Forty-six counties OF PENNSYLVANIA
had forest fires this spring and while
the total area burned over was more
than 100000 acres II was only third
of the acreage damaged by fires in the
season OF 1915, according to figures is
sued by the State Forestry Depart
ment. The damage done by the fires
of this year is estimated at $4,000
Blair, Luzerne and Potter counties
were the heaviest sufferers from the
fires, each having more than $1,000
acres burned over. Twenty counties
lost over a thousand acres of timber
each and Columbia county, which had
but three fires, suffered loss of 1,042
acres. Bucks lost only 23.
There were sos fires reported, of
which fifty-eight were incendiary, 1859
due to railroads, thirty-nine to brush
fires on windy days. thirty-nine due to
careless campers and thirty-seven due
to careless numbering operations, while
five were ascribed to lightning. Thirty
two OF the incendiary fires were in
Franklin county.
1t cost over $4,000 to put out the
forest fires.
Poorest Milk Has Been Setting Price.
Discussing the cost of producing
milk by dairymen and the cost of dis
tribution by dealers. Professor Fred.
Rasmussen, head Of the Dairy Hus-
bandry Department at the State Col
lege, said that milk had until very
recently been paid for without regard
to quality, the cheapest and poorest
milk determining the price. The farm
er, he said, had not made use of col
lective bargaining in the sale of milk,
and as an individual had accepted what
price was offered.
"The fact that milk has always been
obtainable farther away from the mar
ket at less price that the difference in
the cost Of transportation" said Pro
fessor Rasmussen, "has made 1t diff
cult to get an increase in the price of
milk for the farmer, The farmer, as a
class, is slow to change and slow to
organize.
"The fact that milk producers In the
Eastern part of the United States to.
day are organizing to save their In.
dustry from financial ruin is the best
evidence of the economic pressure the
industry is suffering. In the solving
of the crisis in the milk business to.
day, many adjustments must be made"
To Liquidate Insurance Concerns.
The Dauphin County Court named
Insurance Commission j. Denny O'Neil
to take charge of affairs and liquidate
the Textile and Sterling Mutual Fire
Insurance Companies, OF Pottsville,
and the Central Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, Of Lebanon. Thomas b.
Donaldson. Of Philadelphia. will be
named as special deputy to handle the
business.
New oeo License Record.
The Pennsylvania Department OF
Agriculture through the Dairy and
Food Bureau has issued $3.50 licenses
for the sale of oleomargarine against
2,S19 issued during the entire year of
1915. The renovated butter licenses
have also shown an increase Of from
two for 1915 to four up to the present
time this year.
Approves Railroad Charter.
Governor Brumbaugh approved the
charter of the Amityville Railroad,
which will build nve-mile railroad
from Stowe to Amityville. The capital
is $50 600 and the president is William
Abbott Whitman, Reading.
Permits Trial OF Mayor.
Attorney General Brown allowed the
writ in the application to test the citl-
zenship Of Mayor Jonas Fischer, of
Williamsport. The case will be tried
In I,ycoming county