Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 22, 1880
    Near the village of Dubno, province of Vladimir, Russia, a number of dogs attacked a woman and tore her to pieces. A peasant happened to see the woman struggling with the infuriated dogs, and who tried to save her, was nearly killed himself. He was rescued by the combined efforts of seven peasants. These […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1898
    One of New York’s “four hundred” had a $3000 bull dog killed by a Maltese cat in a fight the other day. No wonder the poor dog got killed with such a terrible amount of money as that on his head. The cat probably was worth about fifty cents.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1885
[Exchange.] Â Â Â Â Sledge-dogs need no urging with the whip when their instinct informs them that they are on unsafe ice. Â Â Â Â They flee onwards at the speed which alone can save and, as was experienced repeatly by Dr. Hayes, instead of keeping the sledges together in a compact body, they diverge and separate, so as […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 29, 1885
[Baptis Weekly] Â Â Â Â A sheperd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house where we talking, said to me in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, “I am thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes.” Through he purposely laid no stress on these […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 10, 1880
    The smartest Newfoundland dog yet discovered lives at Haverhill, Mass. He meets the newsboy at the gate every morning and carries his master’s paper into the house, that is, he did so the other day, when his master stopped taking the paper. The next morning the dog noticed the boy passing on the other […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 24, 1880
    When John Thompson of Middlebury, Vt., returned to his filthy hovel after a prolonged spree, his eight dogs almost starved, attacked him. It became necessary to kill all the dogs before he could be rescued, and then he was torn from head to feet.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 24, 1880
    The Illinois Central Railroad has a rule that dogs shall not ride in a passeger car; but a big and ferocious bull-dog walked into a car in Chicago, appropriated a whole seat, and rode 300 miles unmolested. “He had such a meaning smile,” explained the conductor.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 31, 1880
    Albany Argus     Jack is the name of a bull-terrier dog that has been considered as a sort of an attache for a number of years by the American Express Company’s office in this city. About two years ago this dog Jack took a trip westward, and has ever since been on his travels. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 9, 1880
    A singular fiendship has sprung up between the horse and a large Newfoundland dog of Mr. Adams, of Van Schaick’s Island, near Troy. They are never content out of each other’s sight, and lavish caresses of various kinds upon one another.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1880
    The hound is one of the fastest running dogs, and not impeded by a heavy body possesses great endurance. An evidence of this was shown the other day by a hound belonging to Mr. J. A. Ford, of Battle Creek, Mich. Its owner was stopping at a village six miles from the above place, […]