Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1912 — Can’t Stop Carrying Beer at Hammond [ARTICLE]

Can’t Stop Carrying Beer at Hammond

John Peterson, of Hammond, was having a house built in that city and was paying union labor wages. An old man named Liddington carried beer to the workmen and they quit work and drank it on Peterson’s time. He ordered Liddington not to carry the beer and when the old man repeated the act he caught him and pitched him out of the house onto a lumber pile. The old man’s leg was broken and his doctor said he wbuld be crippled for life. He sued Peterson and the jury gave hifff a $3,000 judgment. The evidence is strong that the beer drinkers are going to have their M ay in Hammond and it costs like sixty to interfere.