Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1873
The Olympia Courier of November 25th relates this: While a party were engaged in catching salmon in North Bay, on Saturday last, an enormous panther was discovered in their vicinity, leisurely swimming across from an island to the main land. Â The party were destitute of any implement wherewith to deal summarily with him, yet the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 13, 1922
International News Service. Â Paris, July 13. — Louis Juge made each night “the Circuit of Death.” Â Which is to say he rode a bicycle around the edge of a cage in which were pacing several mature and ferocious looking lions. Â Small boys voted it the best stunt in the circus. Opening night of the Paris […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 28, 1922
Cougars, when hungry, will sometimes tackle a porcupine for a meal, and always with the result of sticking the mucous membrane of the mouth full of quills, from the wounds of which death is almost sure to ensue. When I was with an expedition in the Big Horn mountains, a fine mountain lion was found […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 12, 1897
    A large catamount entered a barnyard belonging to D. J. Parish, one mile north of Baldwin, Fla., recently, and in attempting to catch a pig was killed outright by the mother hog. This seems incredible, but it is the truth, nevertheless. The razerback proved to be somewhat of a razor front to the ferocious […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 23, 1875
    On one occasion, Lent was a part owner of a travling circus and menagerie. One day he met a man out West who had a grizzly bear for sale. As the animal was a splendid specimen of a young grizzly, Lent purchased him, and after he got him he found himself in the position […]
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 10, 1908
    At the special meeting of the committeemen of the Waukegan Day festival, it was decided to procure a twentieth century paradox which is advertised as the latest and most sensational act in the world in which Prof. F. P. Robinson and a lion leap in mid-air from a monstrous balloon.     The lion jumps […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, May 19, 1908
Artic Monsters in marvelously Awe inspiring and Amusing Displays. Â Â Â Â The Carl Hagenbeck & Great Wallace Circus presents more denizens of frozen wastes than ever Artic explorer looked upon at one time. Gathered in a great steel barred arena with a single intrepid trainer, they respond to his every wish and suggestion with intelligence so […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1881
    A singular encounter between a dog and a donkey occurred recently in Blackpool, England. The dog rushed at the donkey as he was standing in a field, and fastened on his nose. The donkey shook him off, bit him about the head and shoulders, and tossed him wildly about. The dog again seized the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1904
 Little Boy Has Exciting Encounter With Vicious Animal.       Perry Maxfield of Bloomfield, N. J., brother of Theodore Todd Maxfield, a well-known horseman, and nephew of Thomas Oakes, millionaire cloth manufacturer of Bloomfield, had an exciting encounter with a wild cat at Nashua, Fla. Maxfield was severely clawed by the animal, and his hunting […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 18, 1901
Explorer Discovers it in Africa Where men Have Annihilated Each Other. Lion Reposes With Hartebeeste. Â Â Â Â London, June 18.-Sir Harry Hamiton Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda protectorate, has returned to London after as absence of two years. He brings stories of uganda rivaling Henry M. Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.” Sir Harry relates that […]