Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 16, 1867
    A Montreal special says that two children were eaten by wolves in the woods, in St. Malachi, on Thursday. The mother had a narrow escape.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Friday, May 23, 1879
    Lafayette [Ind.] Journal.     McDowall Cox, who lives about four miles from Lafayette, in Wabash Township, about two weeks ago lost a dog which he highly prized. The last that was seen of the animal was one day about that length of time ago, when he scared up some unknown creature and darted out […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 23, 1870
A man lately arrived in Sioux City, Iowa, with 12,000 muskrat, 600 mink, 300 otter, and 500 wolf skins, purchased from the Indians in the vicinity.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1912
Leaves Michigan Home on Skis-Parts of Her Clothing Are Found. Â Â Â Â Hancock, Mich., March 16.-Mrs. Selma Makkinen, wife of a Finnish farmer living near Alston, is believed to have been killed and eaten by wolves. Â Â Â Â Shortly before dark she set out on skis for a neighboring farm. She failed to return amd searchers found […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, February 3, 1819
On Friday the 4th instant, about 700 men of the neighboring townships, formed a hunting party. The signal for proceeding was given on Frenchtown Mountain, which was answered by all the horns of the hunters, comprising a circuit of 40 miles, in the space of 15 minutes. The hunters then progressed towards a centre in […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 7, 1891
Harding, a Cattleman, Insane from the Horrors of a Terrible Experience. Â Â Â Â Englewood, Kas., Dec. 6.- [Special.]-News comes of the rescue from an old disused well in No man’s Land of a cattleman named Harding by the driver of the stagecoach which every ten days runs from Englewood to Beaver City, No Man’s Land, and […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, March 2, 1826
    On Saturday last a son, aged five years, of Mr. Daniel Huffman, living about fifty miles north of this place, in this county, while his mother was engaged in her domestic concerns, left the house, and as she supposed, was playing near it. His absence occasioned no uneasiness until night, when his parents made […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 26, 1825
    Russia,-On the 5th of April, two women, walking at Riga, in a solitary part of the city, were torn to pieces by a pack of dogs which had no master. By an official account of the devastation committed by wolves, in the government of Livonia, in 1823, it appears that they devoured 1841 horses, […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 6, 1903
Queer Cases of Attachments Formed in Large Zoological Gardens. Â Â Â Â Among the strange features of life in a large zoo are the unexpected and at times amusing friendships that spring up between animals of altogether dissimilar habits and natures, says London Tit-Bits. Out at the National zoo two rhesus monkeys have formed a warm friendship […]
Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, January 29, 1817
About two weeks since the wife of Mr. John Cobb, of Providence in this county, observed a wolf following some sheep directly towards the house in which they lived; and as her husband was absent from home, she immediately took down the rifle and approached the wolf, who stopped as she advanced. She levelled the […]