Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, August 9, 1853
At an exhibition of animals in Liverpool, the keeper called the lioness to kiss him. She did so, but took off his nose in her teeth.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 17, 1855
The Rockingham, [Va.] Register gives the following account of an old Virginia hunter, Frederick Keiser, of Pendleton County, has devoted much of his time to hunting the mountains of his native county. He is in his 88th year, and has killed during his life, one thousand deer, ten elk, three-hundred bears, thirty panthers and fifty-three […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 11, 1850
The folly of playing all manner of strange pranks with lions and tigers has just been illustrated at Chatham, where a young woman, Ellen Bright, accustomed to enter one of the dens of Wombell’s traveling menagerie, and there exhibit to an audience, gaping with astonishment, her tricks with a lion and a tiger confined together, […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 14, 1850
We are informed by Mr. George F. Hunt, the other day, that about two weeks since, one of his Negro men, while at work on what is known as his “Orchard Place,” was attacked by a large panther. The boy fortunately saw him in time to send off a number of women and children who […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1899
Woman Who Can Subdue the King of Beasts, Is Divorced from a Browbeating Husband. Kansas City, Mo., April 15.-Charlotte Wilhelmina Gertrude Bishop, otherwise known as Mme. Piancka, the lion tamer, appeared in the divorce court here Friday and was legally separated from her husband, H. H. Bishop, a resident of New York. Mme. Piancka, who […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 18, 1911
Little Dog Braves Wounded Wild Beast and Saves Life of His Master. That victory is not always a matter of size or strength was pleasingly illustrated in the case of the dog that did his duty so effectually in the incident here related. A man named De Beer had started early one morning for a […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 8, 1907
Probably all readers are familiar with the fact that in their native countries elephants are not only used to aid in the capture of their own species, but also in pursuit of various wild beasts of the jungle. In tiger hunting especially is this the case, the elephant is rather an unwilling participant. In his […]
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 15, 1890
Wild Scenes Caused by the Stampede of a Circus in Africa. Diamond Fields [Africa] Advertiser: Shortly after 11 o’clock last night a general stampede of all the animals comprising Fillis’ menagerie took place. This appalling occurrence is attributed to a miscreant-at present at large-who, possessed of a grudge against Mr. Fillis or members of his […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, December 7, 1833
It is stated that the keeper of the tigers belonging to the extensive menagerie which was exhibited in this town a few months since, was torn to pieces and literally eaten up by them, a few days since, in a town near New Haven, Conn. He had been in the habit of entering their cage, […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, April 11, 1844
On the 8th inst. Herr Driesbach, a famous lion tamer, attached to a traveling menagerie, took out with him at Baltimore, a pet leopard under his arm. He, with others, slighted from their carriage and went to a coffee house. A boy, about twelve years of age, was pushed by his companions against the leopard, […]