Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 15, 1904
Wild animals do not usually attack men without provocation unless driven to do so by hunger. It is probable, therefore, that the four mountain lions which besieged J. H. Camp for four days and nights in a cabin in the upper San Gabriel country, California, were starving. It was a terrifying experience, as the San […]
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 3, 1899
Dashes Madly Through Streets of an Ohio Town with Burden. The citizens of Mononcue, Ohio, were out the other day hunting for a big panther that has terrorized the residents of that locality. For weeks past the farmers have missed fowl and young animals. In the snow, tracks of a strange animal had been seen, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, April 20, 1880
    Silas Reeves was killed in Pennsylvania recently by a falling tree. Silas Reeves, or “Uncle Sile.” as he was known throughout Northern Pennsylvania, was one of the most remarkkable characters in the State. He was seventy years of age, and for nearly sixty years he had been a hunter, trapper and fisherman, and claimed […]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 14, 1876
The Journal du Havre recounts a terrible encounter between the lion-tamer, Bidel, and a number of wild beasts. Bidel’s custom was to go into the cage of these ferocious animals accompanied by a sheep, which was by his presence kept safe from attack. On a recent occasion he proceeded to the lion’s cage, and his […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 24, 1902
[Copyright, 1902. by C. B. Lewis.] Colonel Ryder, stationed at Bangalore, India, missed from his effects a valuable ruby. The only person who could have taken it was his body servant, who had served him faithfully and honestly for many years. The man protested his innocence, but the colonel ordered him flogged. The accused was […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, May 16, 1901
How Chance Agencies Convey Stray Brutes From One Locality to Another. The manner in which animals may be conveyed from one area or region to another by what may be called chance agencies, has always formed a subject of much interest in the eyes of naturalists. The same opinions may be expressed of the dispersal […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1905
    More than 2,000 persons and four passenger trains on the Colorado Midland railroad were held in tunnel No. 6, two miles west of Manitou, by a fierce South American Jaguar. Before he was captured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe gash across his right leg. Miss Delmont, a passenger […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 22, 1865
    A traveler gives the following anecdote of a tiger kept at the British Residency at Calcutta; “But what annoyed him far more than our poking him with a stick, or tantalizing him with shins of beef or legs of mutton, was a mouse introduced into his cage. No fine lady ever exhibited more terror […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1902
   At the zoological gardens at Perth, Western Australia, there recently took place a fearful battle between a lioness and a tiger. An eyewitness says the scene was terrifying.     Seizing the lioness by the throat, the tiger’s teeth tore threw the flesh, severing the windpipe and lacerating the neck frightfully. He dragged her round the cage […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 6, 1875
A Leopard Kills a Black Panther and Partially Devours It. Â Â Â Â Two lions, two leopards, and a black panther have for some months been kept in one cage in Barnum’s Hippodrome. The lions are separated from their companions through the night by iron bars, but in the day time the bars are withdrawn, and the […]