Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 14, 1877
Last week a man named Selden Hanscom, who lives in Chatham, Carroll county, rode to a neighbors to get two small pigs, carrying them home in a basket in his wagon. On the way home, at about 10 o’clock in the evening, he saw an animal beside the road which he at first thought was […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 20, 1880
    Silas Reeves was killed in Pennsylvania recently by a falling tree. Silas Reeves, or “Uncle Sile.” as he was known throughout Northern Pennsylvania, was one of the most remarkkable characters in the State. He was seventy years of age, and for nearly sixty years he had been a hunter, trapper and fisherman, and claimed […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
  It was found necessaryn Sunday last to repair the polar bear water tank at the zoo, and for the purpose the brown bears were driven into the right compartments, so that their pit could be occupied by the white bears temporarily. One of the iron doors of the compartment not being fully closed, one […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 2, 1866
  The Reading [Pa.] Times has the following: “Bear’ Miller, an old hunter, 92 years of age, was in this city on Monday morning, having walked from Maidencreek, a distance of twelve miles. He is a resident of Huntingdon county. He wears a beard about a foot long and as white as snow. He has […]
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 22, 1857
    A yellow bear has been seen in the region of Lake Superior, supposed to be a cross of the polar and black bear, and as large as two of the common black species. One of the cubs of this bear was taken by the Indians, and by them carried to Green Bay, where his […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, December 23, 1877
Correspondence New York Post. Â Â Â Â The Hudson’s Bay Company, during the season just past, have made their shrewd and abundant preparations for a successful winter’s trade, and the coming spring, no doubt, will show a corresponding result in a more than average catch. Â Â Â Â The first in point of value is the pine marten, or […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 31, 1901
Left their home near Job, W. Va., to Gather Wild Flowers. Â Â Â Â A Job, W. Va., special says: ‘To be crused to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was the frightful fate that befell the three young children of E. P. Porterfield, a […]
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
    Among the baggage coming down on a Flint & Pere Marquette train, the other day, was a full-grown black bear. Bruin had been in captivity for two or three years, and was on his way East for a Zoological garden. His owner was allowed to ride with him in the baggagecar, and he seemed […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1905
    More than 2,000 persons and four passenger trains on the Colorado Midland railroad were held in tunnel No. 6, two miles west of Manitou, by a fierce South American Jaguar. Before he was captured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe gash across his right leg. Miss Delmont, a passenger […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville. Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1904
Gasoline Torch Explodes and Destroys Camels, Elephants and Bears. Â Â Â Â A circus train arrived in Pawnee City, Neb., late the other night. Early the next morning one of the animal-keepers went through the elephant cars to see that all was right, when the gasoline torch which he carried exploded and the entire car was immediately […]