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Bees Destroy 300 Cattle.

Monday, January 31, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1898

J. McKeegan’s famous bunch of shorthorned cattle, numbering 300 head, was pasturing in the reservation near Bancroft, Neb., on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and were either […]

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Bees Kill Attacking Dog.

Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 10, 1912

       Mount Vernon, Ill. May 8-A birddog belonging to Ashibel Free attacked a beehive in a playful mood. The bees stung the dog to death.

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Awful Work of Yellow Jackets.

Friday, June 4, 2010
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 24, 1896

George Ring, a hired man on the farm of William Smith, his father-in-law, near Alton, was riding a mowing machine one day last week, when one of the horses stepped in a yellow jacket’s nest. Instantly the irritable occupants of the nest came out in a swarm and stung the horses, which, frenzied with the […]

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