Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1859 — WHISKY RIOT AT MONTICELLO. [ARTICLE]

WHISKY RIOT AT MONTICELLO.

We learn frbm the Lafayette Courier that a serious whiJky riot occurred in Monticello one night last week. The County Commissioners had refused to grant any licenses, and the retail trade was about dead. A Jew, thinking it a goid opening, brought in a stock of liquors and commenced selling in defiance of public opinion. A riot was the consequence, led on by a reformed drunkard. The shop was demolished entirely, and everything in it. The owner fought hard for his whisky, but was wounded severely ’with a hatchet, and put ouCbf the way.