Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Heavy Sentence for a Whisky Seller. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Sentence for a Whisky Seller.

At St. John, Kan., for selling whisky in violation of the prohibitory law, Chns. Steinbrink has been fined $4,900 and sentenced to forty-nine months in jail. He cannot pay his fine and will, under the Inw, have to serve it oflt at the rate of 50 cents a day, making his total jail sentence practically thirty years. He was convicted on forty-nine counts. A new electric motor for automobiles has been devised which restores energy to the storage battery when the vehicle is running down hill.