Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, April 2, 1861
     We are indebted to Ephraim Brown, Esq., for the particulars of a fight which occured recently at Bridge Creek, between Mrs. T. C. Higgins and about a dozen wolves: Early in the evening, Mrs. Higgins heard an unusual noise at the calf-pen as if a dozen wolves were contemplating an attack upon the […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, February 9, 1880
     Numerous cases of depredations by wolves have recently occured in Hungary. A band of these animals passed threw one of the suburbs of Tomesvar, destroying any animal which was not housed. A clergyman who was returning home in a sledge from a neighboring town was beset by a pack of wolves. He bade the […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, January 28, 1889
     A little girl shut up as punishment for some fault in her father’s barn at Baud [Morbihun] in France, was killed by a wolf, which by climbing a rubbish heap, was able to enter by the roof. The family had been at work in the fields at some distance, and on the father […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, December 18, 1879
     In the district of Waldat, Russia, wolves are making great ravages this year, and it is feared that the losses of the peasants will surpass those of 1878. The bill of slaughter for this year alone in the above district includes 276 horses, 851 colts, 1,653 sheep, 237 cows, 740 calves, and 295 […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901
     After a fight with a wolf driven by the pangs of hunger within the city limits of Galesburg, Fred Meadows, aged 14 years, succeeded in killing the animal with a 22-caliber rifle and his dog. The boy was hunting sparrows. The wolf came out of a cornfield and made for the lad with […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 20, 1909
     Simon Helms, farmer, near Elkinsville, fourteen miles south of here, battled for almost an hour with a pack of wolves, which killed several sheep, raided a chicken coop and drove Helms family into the house after they had been severely injured by the enraged animals, which were finally driven off.     Last winter […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 30, 1877
     Washington, D. C., June 29,-The investigation into the losses of sheep during the past year shows a total of nearly 3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by dogs and wolves and various diseases and the aggregate money value of nearly $8,000,000. The average percentage of loss was nearly 8 percent. The proportion is […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, July 24, 1877
 New York Evening Post     Strange as it may seem, the emancipation of the serfs in Russia has increased the number of wolves in that country. The serfs used to act as their masters drivers in the great wolf- hunts which formed a national pastime; but since the liberation the wolf-hunt has gradually become […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, October 31, 1874
     A child was recently killed by a wolf at LaRochette, France. A girl named Marie Favand, aged 10, was on the border of a wood picking up acorns, when the animal suddenly appeared, and seizing her by the neck, crushed her head between its jaws. On her crying out a workman named Texier […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 2, 1875
 The Latest Hydrophobia Horror Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune     Lincoln Neb., July 1-Reports from the buffalo lands, in the western part of the state, report numerous wolves suffering from hydrophobia, making it dangerous for hunters. A young man named Ackerly, while sleeping on the prairie recently, was bitten on the nose by […]