Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — BOMB FOR LIQUOR FOE [ARTICLE]

BOMB FOR LIQUOR FOE

Explosion Occurs at Home of Knox College Professor. Galesburg, 111., Oct. 13. —At 1 o’clock in the morning a bomb was thrown at the home of W. P. Drew, a;professor at Knox college. The bomb missed a window that had been opened to receive it and fell upon the side porch, tearing a large hole and breaking seven windows. The family was sleeping upstairs on the back porch and escaped injury. Professor Drew has beqn instrumental in the prosecution of illegal liquor selling here and it is believed by anti-saloon workers here the bomb was thrown with a view of checking the prosecutions. This is bomb No. 2 for Galesburg, the rear of the Heidelberg club having been wrecked by a bomb a year ago.