Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1905 — Selling Beer on Trains. [ARTICLE]

Selling Beer on Trains.

The right of the Monon railroad to sell liquor on its trains without • license in every oounty, is to be tested in the higher courts of Indiana. The trouble started over a personal encounter between Walter Williams a colored porter •on the Monon. and Nicholas Ep ipinghoneen of Louisville. Williams was arrested, tried and fined for assault and battery. Daring the trial it developed that Williams sold Eppinghousen, a bottle of beer on the train wbile it was in Monroe county, so Williams was fined for selling liquor without a license. Eppinghousen then brought a SIO,OOO damage suit against the Monon oompany on account of the assault. The Monon paid both of Williams’ fines and announoes through its attornev that it will fight the case. Meanwhile no liquor is sold on the Monon trains while going through Monroe oonnty.