Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 30, 1906
 Several Already Slain In Duluth, Minn. One Routed By A Woman. Uses dipper of hot water on him-Didn’t want him in kitchen while she was busy making preserves.     Duluth, Minn.-The annual invasion of Duluth by members of the bear tribe began the other day, and has been continuous ever since. Ten bears have […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 16, 1894
    A very sad occurrence is reported from the Upper Gila, Mexico. A Mexican woman named Sisto Wesley, who had lost a little child a short time since., went to the graveyard to mourn over the grave of her little one, and while there two bears set upon her and devoured her.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 5, 1881
    A fearful tale is told, in the Port Jervis [N. Y.] Union of a recent date of the fate of Lottie Merrill, the young huntress of Wayne County, Pa. According to this account she had met a most tragic death, having been attacked in her hut by six bears, killed and eaten by them, […]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 5, 1906
Grizzlies attack young Indian maid, Who uses rifle and knife effectively. Â Â Â Â Pony, Mont.-Annie Big Elk, a 15-year-old Indian girl, living near here, fought a desperate battle with two grizzly bears, and finally killed them both, one of them with a knife and the other with a rifle. The girl was badly lacerated by the […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, May 19, 1908
Artic Monsters in marvelously Awe inspiring and Amusing Displays. Â Â Â Â The Carl Hagenbeck & Great Wallace Circus presents more denizens of frozen wastes than ever Artic explorer looked upon at one time. Gathered in a great steel barred arena with a single intrepid trainer, they respond to his every wish and suggestion with intelligence so […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1877
    A negro man recently went bear hunting in Chowan county, N. C., and was soon found in the enbraces of a bear, both dead. And now the people around there want to know what in the world the negro could have been thinking about to let a bear he had killed hug him to […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Carrollton Gazette, Carrollton, Illinois on Friday, October 2, 1846
    About the year 1830, I settled at the Lower Peach Tree, in Wilcox county Alabama, and cultivated a few acres in corn and cotton, besides a small potatoe patch and a bit of garden as was usual in those days. My nearest neighbor, John Champion, being better off than the rest of us, had […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 10, 1873
    On Monday, April 20th, a young man named John Bidwell, aged 19 years, a resident of Baylston, N. Y., went into the woods, about four miles from home, to gather spruce gum. He was accompanied by his father, a one-armed man. They carried no arms, and only a hatchet, a dirk-knife, and a long […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 11, 1860
    On Tuesday of this week an Indian hunter encountered a huge bear near Beef River Station, and the affray proved fatal to both. The Indian shot the bear, wounding him severely, and then rushed up, expecting to dispatch him with his tomahawk. Mr. Bruin “locked horns” with Mr. Indian, and a struggle for life […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, January 31, 1918
    Two small pet dogs saved the life of their thirteen-year-old master, Bruno Westerman of St. Paul, when Teddy, a pet black bear, attacked the boy.     As the bear seized the boy the dogs gave battle and Teddy dropped the child and sought refuge in a near-by tree.     Carl, the sixteen-year-old brother, finally […]