Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 20, 1853
The incursions of bears and wolves into settled parts of Norway and Sweden, are described as having been frightful during the winter just passed. The bears come fearlessly into the villages and the smaller peasant settlements in Norway, break into the cattle enclosures, kill the oxen and cows and feast themselves whole nights through; while […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
Vernon Baily, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by four wolves of which he got trace was a […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, November 9, 1730
Paris, July 8. They write from Vendesme, that the wolves continue to make great ravages; that they cannot travel the country without danger; that several persons, men, women and children, had been devoured by them, and also cattle. The Governor has ordered troops of hunter’s, townsmen and villagers, consisting of 3,000 men; but not withstanding […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 30, 1850
The New York Courier extracts from the Republique, published at Tarbes, (High Pyramid) France, the following horrible account of a man being destroyed by wolves near that place: “On the night of the 4th inst., in the annals of our country, occured in the valley of Aure. A pedler was returning from the village of […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, February 9, 1856
The Kansas correspondent of the St. Louis Republican tells the following story; “A few days since, while riding in the rear of our town, in a small ravine, through which a streamlet takes a quiet way beneath its crystal covering, and whose irrigation has produced tall grasses and shrubs that make a hiding place for […]
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 3, 1912
Mr. and Mrs. Damerel of Ashland Travel in Unique Fashion. Driving from coast to coast, with four timber wolves hitched to a spring wagon pulling them, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Damerel of Ashland, Wis., arrived in Waukegan today. The queer equipage is now bound for New York, from which place it will double on […]
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1859
Greenly writes a long letter describing his trip from Denver City to the mouth of the Platte River. He thus relates a discussion that occurred one night around the campfire. “By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions-all mountaineers of ripe experience-as to the relative merits of certain meats, of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Dog Comes to the Rescue of Colorado Cow Herder in Nick of Time. A cow herder, Mike Sullivan, encountered a large gray wolf at Prospect lake, near Colorado Springs, Col., the other day while attending to his cattle. Armed only with a club, he pursued it a short distance, when it turned on him. He […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 5, 1906
Swift Runners on Snowshoes Make Short Work of the Brutes. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by and upon their raindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man; but, as taxes are assessed upon the number of deer, he is inclined to underestimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 6, 1906
Reports from Labrador state that five persons were killed and eaten by savage dogs of that coast during the last winter. These dogs, which have largely interbred with wolves, have frequently killed people heretofore. One of the victims last winter was a man, aged thirty-five, and the others his wife, daughter and granddaughter.