Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 1, 1914
    Joe Atkinson of Roundout Vicinity Has Frightful Experience With Animal Which Previously Had Always Been Gentle-Two Farm Hands Rush To Aid Of Employer But The Bull Keeps On Goring And Pawing Him About The Yard-Collie Rushes To Rescue, And, With Bites And Barks, Detracts Bull’s Attention While Workmen Rescue Him.     With two hired […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1899
    Plucky Act of Miss Myrtle McAteer at Pittsburg, Pa.     Miss Myrtle McAteer, the tennis player, choked a mad dog to death. The dog was bounding along the street and everyone was making way for it as Miss McAteer came out of the gate at her home at West and Hill streets, Pittsburg. Instead […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1905
F. N. Jenkins of Lincoln, Neb., bathed his dogs in gasoline in the cellar of his house to kill fleas. Later he approached them with a lantern and an explosion followed which wrecked the house. Two may die.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
[From Wednesdays Sun] Â Â Â Â Yesterday the police of Waukegan shot four dogs for the crime of chicken murder. Â Â Â Â The canines had killed, maimed and mistreated chickens belonging to Louis Thewes, Miss Hill, Mrs. Rod Wells and Mrs. Fillenbeck, all of whom live on different sections of the north side, ranging from Sheridan road west […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1822
    Sir Thomas Roe took out some English mastiffs to India, as a present for the Great Mogul; they were of marvellous courage. One of them leapt overboard to attack a school of porpoises, and was lost. Only two of them lived to reach India. They travelled each in a little coach to Agra; one […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 7, 1822
    A person in the upper wards of this city, having some money to pay to another person, called upon him, with the same, but found that he was not at home; his dog, however was present, and eyed the man, and saw the money in his hands. Calling the second time, he found his […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 11, 1910
Deputy City Poundmaster Seal Has Narrow Escape. Timely Arrival of Poundmaster Cox Saved Helpless Man From being Torn to Pieces. Â Â Â Â Denver, Colo. March 11.-Prostrate on the floor of a chamber six feet square with seventy-five ferocious dogs raging about him snapping at his body. Thomas Seal, deputy city poundmaster, was nearly bitten to death […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 2, 1826
    We read of 42 sheep being killed out of one flock, near Winchester, Va. by dogs in one night, which also wounded 10 or 12 more. Wherever sheep abound, dogs should not; and it is every way right that the owners of dogs should be made responsible for damages like this committed on the […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 26, 1825
    Russia,-On the 5th of April, two women, walking at Riga, in a solitary part of the city, were torn to pieces by a pack of dogs which had no master. By an official account of the devastation committed by wolves, in the government of Livonia, in 1823, it appears that they devoured 1841 horses, […]
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 […]