Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — Monon Tried For Violation of Telegraph Operator Law. [ARTICLE]

Monon Tried For Violation of Telegraph Operator Law.

Judgments totaling $1,350 have been rendered against the Monon railway by Judge Anderson in federal court, on complaint of District Attorney Charles W. Miller that the company in November and December, 1909, and in June, 1910, had violated the federal law against keeping operators on duty for more than nine hours consecutively. The two complaints against the company charged forty violations cf the law at Monon, Delphi, Rensselaer and South Hammond. A penalty cf S2OO on the first, paragraph cf eachaction was imposed, and a penalty cf $25 on each of the other offenses that were charged. The Monon in its ans wer admitted that the charges were true.