Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — Blown up with Dynamite. [ARTICLE]

Blown up with Dynamite.

Cooper’s mill-dam in the Monon river, near the town of Monon, is said to occasion a Vast amount of damage to a pert Injuring them both in-health and property. The injured parties have made strong eflorts to secure its peaceable removal, ottering the proprietor; HenCrumbn, a hard-hea dcci old Dutchman, a steam engine and $1,500 in money, if he would remove the dam. All efforts of that nature failed, however, and about three weeks ago, in the night, a large section of the dam was blown out by dynamite. Crumbo mounted guard over his damaged dam the, following night, and while patroling the river bank, with a loaded shot gun on his shoulder, an ambushed enemy sprang from behind an old stump and pushed the old iHlow headlong into the river* The splash of the ponderous dutchman in th? water, resembled the plunge of a hippopotamus. The dam was repaired, and two men were then engaged to guard it. One of them keeping watch the first half of the night, and the other the latter half. On Wednesday evening, of last week, guard number two was a little late in making his appearance, and number one left the dam before his arrival.. During the interval, an enormous charge of dynamite was fired in the dam, blowing a vast opening in it, and breaking every window in the adjoining mill. The explosion took place at about two o'clock, in the morniDg, and its force was so great as actually to throw people in tile vicinity out of their beds. The sound was heard for many miles, and doubt less could have been heard in Rensselaer, had any one been out of doors , at the time. The people living in the Vicinity expect that the mill itself wilt be blown up, if Crambo persists in maintaining the dam. ■*"

Mrs. Wiliiam Medicus, mother of J. W. Medicus of this place, died last Thursday evening at her home in Lafayette. Her funeral was attended by one hundred master masons. The National Fat Stock Show is now open In the Exposition building, in Chicago, and will run until next Thursday. Reduced round trip rates on the L. N. A. & C., tomorrow and Saturday. Good returning until the 23rd.