Skip to content

Category Archives: Wolves

Wolves category

Wolf Whips a Pack of Hounds

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 29, 1901

       Details of a thrilling fight in which an enormous timber wolf vanquished a pack of eighteen hounds has reached Mattoon. It occured on the Cizemore farm, near Marley, and was witnessed by Siebert Scott, William Creech and Mark Davidson, who were at work in a sugar camp. They saw the wolf running, followed […]

Also filed in Dogs | Tagged | Comments (0)

Baron Eaten By Wolves

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, January 19, 1910

  A bloody knife found in snow indicates he fought for his life.      Vienna, Jan. 19-While Baron Ottirhan, a Hungerian magnate, age seventy years, was riding on his estate in Transylvania, he was chased by hunger pinched wolves.      His horse became frenzied and threw the baron who was devoured by the wolves.      […]

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments (0)

Wolves Fight Funeral Party.

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 7, 1900

       While a number of settlers near Roseau, Minn. were burying a little girl  they were attacked by wolves, which severely bit several persons in attempts to get at the body.

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments (0)

Puts Pack To Flight

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 17, 1905

  Minnesota man’s life saved by a match. Treed by wolves, He ignites coat of one of the animals by dropping light upon it and all flee to timber.      Hans Peterson, a farmer of Walworth county, Wis., conceived an original way of escaping from a pack of wolves that gave him chase and treed […]

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments (0)

Horse Beats Off Wolves.

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1901

       Details of a ferocious attack of a pack of wolves upon Linley, the 12-year-old son of F. M. Bane, a tenant farmer living near the Kansas line, reached Mattoon the other day. Young Bane at dusk rode on horsrback to bring home the cows. As he passed a small grove fourteen grey wolves, […]

Also filed in Horses | Tagged | Comments (0)

Lumberman Eaten by Wolves.

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 6, 1901

       News has come from Gilmour and Houston’s lumber camp at Bark Lake on the Gatineau that Edward Connor, 18 years old, a lumberman, had been eaten by wolves.

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments (0)

Children Killed by Timber Wolves

Monday, March 1, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 14, 1900

       Two children named Bertrand, brother and sister, met a horrible death at Englishman’s River, on the northern British Columbia coast. They were attacked and killed by wolves.

Also filed in | Tagged | Comments (0)