Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1899 — The Monon is Sued Again. [ARTICLE]

The Monon is Sued Again.

A suit against the C. I. & L. Ry., Company has just been filed in the oirouit court, asking damages for SI,OOO. The plaintiff is one Alexander Blotsky. According to the story, he bought a ticket at Rose Lawn, on Thanksgiving day, for Fair Oaks, for the train which arrives at Rensselaer at 10:55 a. m. He paid for the tioket the regular price 15 cents* He boarded the train and went into the smoking car; the conductor did not come to collect the ticket, and when Fair Oaks was reached no one announced the faot, and Mr. Blotsky being a stranger did not know that it was his town, and remained on the train. Pretty soon Jack Condon, the conductor on the train, came around and when he found Blotsky’s ticket was only to Fair Oaks, he demanded fare to Rensselaer, cussed him for a dead beat, snatched him around in the car, and took possession of Blotsky’s overooat. When Rensselaer was reached the overcoat was turned over to the station agent here, and Blotsky had to put up 30 cents, the fare from Fair Oaks to Rensselaer or go shivering. For the injury and humiliation thus sustained, Blotsky brings this action. His attorneys are E. P. Honan and Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie.