Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 15, 1876
    Mr. John K. Markill, of Norfolk, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. returned home late, having been detained by a storm, and going out some time after to care for his team, was just in the act of opening his stable door when he was seized from behind by a panther, which attempted to grapple […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1899
    Locked in an iron cage, Mille Morrelli fought with an enraged leopard at the Philadelphia exposition grounds. The little French women conquered, but now lies in the University hospital with severe wounds in her left arm and breast.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1874
    A story is told of a lion which was brought from India, and who on the passage grew very fond of a sailor who had charge of him. His name was “Nero.” On being shut up in a cage in London, he grew sulky, and was very fiece when any one came near him, […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, March 30, 1826
    A Dutch paper mentions the following singular occurrence as having recently happened at Bautam, in the East Indies, for the authenticity of which it says it can answer;-A man fishing on the banks of the river Tyeliman, heard something splash in the water, and perceived a Tiger at no great distance, swimming from the […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 12, 1825
    A panther lately attacked a little girl, 12 or 13 years old, in Jackson city, Tennessee. The furious animal was first assailed by a small dog, which only diverted his attantion from the girl for a few moments, when another larger dog came up and made battle with him, during which two men arrived […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 16, 1861
A pretty little bantam was recently thrown into the cage of one of the tigers domiciled in the managerie of the Jardin des Plantes. Â It was designed to sharpen his appetite for some blocks of meat which he had declined to eat. Â Not in the least alarmed by his terrible roars, bantam advanced with the […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 9, 1923
If a giraffe sees a lion first he can outdistance him and if driven to bay matches his hoofs against the teeth and claws of his enemy.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
Oregon is the scene of a panther-slaying episode, which, as related by the Butler Creek Enterprise, is enough to make Fiction blush over the audacity of Truth. Â A settler living near Scott’s Mills set out to haul some cedar timber, being accompanied by children, a little rat-terrier, a Newfoundland dog, and a large-bore ritle. Â After […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 2, 1921
Beats fights as Barnes Circus wagon tilts dangerously; one animal was shot Many women fainted The parade of the Al Barnes circus which was in Waukegan last week, was passing through North Lake street, a residential thoroughfare in Aurora, yesterday. Â In one compartment of a gilded cage sat Miss Mabel Stark with a Bengal tiger. […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 30, 1922
Lion flesh is said to be very good eating, but tiger is tough and sinewy. Â Nevertheless, the latter is eaten in India as there is a superstition that it imparts strength and cunning to the eater.