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 […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, January 28, 1916
    That young cub bear, recently presented to Owner Weeghman of the Chicago Cubs by Senator Olson and Frank West of Waukegan, was killed yesterday. He escaped from his cage yesterday and invaded a tailoring factory and caused a panic among the 25 girl employes. The animal was captured in the woods of northern Wisconsin […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1821
    In the history of Russia mention is made of a peasant who in quest of honey leaped into a hollow tree, where he found such a great stock that he sunk up to the breast in it; He stuck fast, and his remedy appeared but to eat himself into liberty by devouring all the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
    To walk right up to a monster bear and try to shove it out of the way and then escape without so mush as a scratch is an experience of a lifetime. Harry I. Engelbright found it so a few days ago in Diamond canyon, above Washington, Nev. The young man, son of Congressman […]
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, December 23, 1818
Captain Hawkins, of the Ever horpe, of Hull, while at the Davis’s Straits fishery, being engaged with a boat’s crew in attempting to kill a bear in the water, the enraged animal made a snatch at captain H. and seizing him by the thigh dragged him out of the boat, and immediately made off with […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 23, 1875
    On one occasion, Lent was a part owner of a travling circus and menagerie. One day he met a man out West who had a grizzly bear for sale. As the animal was a splendid specimen of a young grizzly, Lent purchased him, and after he got him he found himself in the position […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 14, 1922
                                          By International News Service     Bloomsburg, Pa., July 14-A black bear that weighed 350 pounds and a cow in a pasture on North Mountain battled half an hour in a terrific fight. The bear won. Then Willian Temple killed the bear. Temple, with a keen regard for the law, reported the fact he had […]
Friday, February 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, March 12, 1856
    The following extract from the Hunter’s Feast forms the conclusion by the “hunter naturalist” about a “Deer hunt in a Dug Out.” He and Dick were after venision in their canoe by torch light:     “We had scarcely passed this point, when my attention was attracted by a pair of fiery eyes that glistened […]
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 8, 1873
A Tough Old Hunter. The Exploits of Phin Teeple-Slaying Thousands of Deer and Hundreds of Bears-How His Boys Killed a Bear. Susquehanna Depot, Pa. [Dec,2], Correspondence of the New York San. Old Phin Teeple, of Preston, Wayne County, has been absent some weeks in the forests of Potter County hunting. Phin is 70 years old, […]