Saturday, November 8, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 7, 1898
Cedar Inspector’s Battle for Life in a Michigan Swamp. A cedar inspecter in one of Robert Rae’s camps at Hillman, Mich., started for camp at a late hour. In a lonely swamp, about one mile from camp, he was attacked by seven lynxes. Having nothing with which to defend himself, his first thought was to […]
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 1, 1899
One Who Has Been Bitten Forty-Seven Times During His Dangerous Career. “Eternal vigilance is the price of immunity from bites,” said a lion tamer recently to a New York Telegraphman. “Although my lions do not often catch me, they do with a frequencey sufficient for all practical purposes. Within three months I have been bitten […]
Monday, September 22, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 27, 1913
Montana Lad Has Both Legs Frozen, but May Live. Butte, Mont., 27.-For fifteen hours eleven -year-old Frank Engstrom of Georgetown, a mining camp near Anadonds, was treed by a mountain lion a few nights ago while the thermometer registered thirty-five degrees below zero. Later the little fellow was brought to Butte and two frozen legs […]
Friday, September 19, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, aukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 3, 1912
Baboons Had revenge for the Seizure of One of Their Number, Though Many Were Sacrificed. The leopard likes the meat of certain monkeys, but the indulgence of his taste sometimes costs him dear. A remarkable battle between a leopard and a company of baboons, seen by a traveler in Africa, is described in Das Buch […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897
Tamer from Europe Has a Desperate Battle at Winsted, Conn. Mozart, a lion tamer just from Europe, was nearly killed the other night at the Nickel Plate circus at Winsted, Conn., by Mad Lizzie, the lioness that has killed eight men. He had entered the cage just as a furious storm broke, and the deafening […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Party of Campers in the Alleghenies Kill Forty-Seven Rattlers. Miss Bella Hope, the “rattlesnake belle of the Alleghenies,” with three young women companions and two young men, went berrying in the mountains near Belefonte, Pa., Monday. At noon while eating luncheon they witnessed a desperate fight a few hundred feet distant between a wild cat […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Frank C. Bostock, manager of a Zoo, is Rescued from Death by a Woman. Frank C. Bostock, manager of the Hagenbeck zoo, which is wintering at Kansas City, Mo., was terribly bitten and lacerated by Brutus, the big lion which has already maimed several men. He was saved from being killed by the energetic action […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 13, 1910
Infant Snatched From Mother’s Arms by Beast in Theater. Cleveland, Tenn., May 13.-A trained lion which was being exhibited on an open stage here suddenly snatched a baby from the arms of its mother, carried it to the back of the stage, dashed it to the floor and planted both forepaws on the little one’s […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, October 5, 1904
Bloomington Couple Married in These Unique Surroundings. Bloomington, Ill., October 5. A unique wedding attracted much attention. Arthur Anderson and Hattie Ball, a couple from Downs, this county, were made man and wife while standing on a pyramid in a den of lions, panthers and hyenas. Justice W. B. Hendryx accompanied the couple into the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1906
Twenty Wild Animals Invade Chorumo and Eat Eleven Natives. A herd of hungry lions attacked the town of Chorumo, British Central Africa, recently, and not only killed eleven natives, but put the rest of the population to flight and demolished many of their huts. Between fifteen and twenty lions made the raid at dusk. They […]