Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, April 6, 2025
Wildcat Eats Wildcat. Savage brutes shipped from California in the same cage have a falling out by the way-A case of assimilation. A 50-pound Wildcat, with a split eye lid, and fresh battle scars about its body, was the survivor of a catfight. The Wildcats were forwarded by W. D. Gambel, of Wells, Fargo & […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Herr Driesbach.-The great “Lion Tamer,” Herr Driesbach, came to town a day or two since, looking as well, or better, than we remember ever to have seen him. He has been engaged in conducting or rather humanizing animals in the East, since here before, but hearing that Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Leopards and other wild beasts […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 13, 1853
A number of whelps, the offspring of a lioness which died on the passage from India to England, have been given over to the maternal charge of a female terrier. The canine was deprived of her own young and the lions substituted. The strange family goes on most harmoniously.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 12, 1907
Philadelphians In Motor Car Have Hair Raising Experience. Recently the family of William H. Walker of Philadelphia had an experience rare indeed. In their motor car they were en route to Bedford Springs, Pa., and were going over the mountain from Fannettsburg to McConnellsburg, the county seat of Fulton county, lying deep in the vale […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, July 24, 1732
Last Thursday morning a creature was observed to breakthrough a window of a store-house in this city, (New York) and jumped into the street, where was suddenly a number of spectators, who followed it, till it jumped over several high fences; and at last went between two houses, where they shot it. Many has had […]
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 […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 30, 1901
She is Very Fond of Her Keeper and Knows Him From All Others. The Central park menagerie at New York has a great African lioness that is totally blind. One would scarcely guess it from her appearance, however. She walks up and down her cage just the same as the other members of the cat […]
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 26, 1857
This celebrated lion-tamer is now living upon a beautiful farm within a mile of Potosi, Wis. He was recently in Dubuqe, Iowa, and went with a companion to a menagerie there, and the latter describes the visit in the following, interesting style; On entering the canvass, which was before the audience began to collect, Herr […]
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 […]
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 22, 1900
A black lion has lately been added to the collection of animals in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. Lions of this color are found only in the interior of the Sahara, and are scarce even there.