Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 7, 1910
Reptile is so badly gashed it may die of injuries. San Francisco, Feb. 7.-A desperate battle was fought in the Golden Gate park aviary between a large golden eagle and a four-foot alligator. The fight was waged in the air, on land and in the water and the alligator was so badly gashed that it […]
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1738
We are told that 300,000 Souls have perished in this storm; but believe the number is exaggerated; a prodigious Quantity of Cattle of all sorts, a great many Tigers in the lower Ganges, and several Rhinoceros were drowned, even a great many Caymans, Amphibious Animals, were killed by the furious agitation of the waters, and […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 18, 1732
Charlestown, South Carolina July 15, 1732. On the 29th, a white Servant Man belonging to Mr. Robert Cinclair wilfully drowned himself in Black River, he had been in the Province but a few weeks, and it is imagined that his being put to work, which was what, it seems, he had not been used to, […]
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1834
About eleven O’clock in the afternoon we cast anchor in the Burchura Nuddle, with an extensive forest on both sides; when at about a hundred yards from us, an alligator came out of the river, to enjoy his noontime sleep in the rays of the sun. After remaining there about an hour, apparently in a […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 13, 1908
Cincinnati, Oct. 17.-A battle for life took place before the eyes of hundreds of spectators in the Auditorium theater, between the “Great Swan,” trainer of alligators, and Nell, the largest reptile in his group of eight. The attack was made by the alligator in the large tank in the center of the stage. But for […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 11, 1858
    Four hundred alligators have been captured by a single hunter in the swamps near New Orleans, since the 1st of May.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, January 26, 1890
An Experiment That Proved Entirely Too Successful. Â Â Florida Letter; When Capt. Royce, late of Ohio, made his home in Florida he found a fine alligator perserve in one corner of his plantation, and realized almost as much from the sale of hides as from his oranges. In crossing a small bayou one day he […]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 25, 1898
Rapid Decline of One of the Ugliest Beasts on Earth. Florida tourists note a sharp advance in the price of alligator material, and also in the raw material in life. This is owing to the large decrease in the supply. Diminutive live alligators have advanced from 25 cents each to 50 cents, and larger ones […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, August 14, 1816
Lumberton, N. C. June 18. Extraordinary and Shocking occurence. Â Â Â Â On Friday afternoon, the 7th inst. Mrs. Ratley was riding across the Gum Swamp, [about 1 miles from this place] where the water is but little more than knee deep, the boat on which she rode was attacked by an Alligator, and in the struggle, […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Monday, July 30, 1827
    The most justifiable act of this kind of which we have heard, is the following. A Kentuckian belonging to a surveying party, under an officer of U. S. Engineers, swimming in St. Johns’ River, was seized by a large alligator and taken under the water. In a short time the Kentuckian and the alligator […]