Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 13, 1886
As the 10:20 train was coming south this morning, a number of dogs were playing upon the track, and they were struck by the engine. After the train had passed it was found that two large greyhound’s and one Newfoundland-all valuable dogs-were killed. The worthless curs got “nary a scratch.”
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, November 12, 1851
The Naval and Military Sketch Book tells the following interesting story. In July, 1800, Lieutenant Jeremiah Coghlan, in the boats of the Viper, an English cutter, in the most daring manner boarded and brought out under the batteries at Port Louis, a French brig, called the Carbere, Connected with this exploit is the following, there […]
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, December 16, 1853
This dog story is from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where a farmer’s dog has been detected in going to the hog-pen and biting one of the hogs till it gets up; when Archy lies down in the warm place and goes to sleep.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 2, 1853
Something more than one hundred dogs have been killed by the city authorities within the last thirty-six hours.-Galena Jeffersonian.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, February 21, 1853
The Charleston Evening News relates a singular instance of canine attachment. Two dogs, one a terrier and the other a spaniel, were playing together on Haskell street, Charleston, on Friday last, when an omnibus in passing unfortunately ran over and killed the terrier. The spaniel commenced the most piercing cries and pathetic lamentations for the […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 13, 1853
A number of whelps, the offspring of a lioness which died on the passage from India to England, have been given over to the maternal charge of a female terrier. The canine was deprived of her own young and the lions substituted. The strange family goes on most harmoniously.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1911
Fight Between Animals Witnessed By many New Iberis “Sports.” New Orleans. Feb. 4.-Almost the entire population of new Iberia, assembled to witness an advertised battle between a gorilla and an English Bulldog. The gorilla won in a little over 2 minutes, and much betting was indulged in on the outcome of the fight. A pen […]
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, February 24, 1735
On Monday last a woman in Dedman’s Place, Southwark London, England leaving a nurse child (a boy about two years old) in a cradle with a puppy to play with it, upon her return found the dog had gnaw’d off the private parts in such a manner, that its life is dispaired of.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, April 22, 1728
I took my departure from Blackwood-Key, in the Bay of Honduras, in the sloop Dove, the 24th of December, 1728 last. The 3rd day of February I made land in the lat 39. and 40 Min. about 4 leagues to the Northward of Cape May: We had been then some time a short allowance, both […]
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 4, 1733
London, England October 16, 1733. On Monday last as two young lads were fighting at Clerkenwell-Green, a large dog, belonging to a Brewer’s Dray, passing by, seized one of the boys by the hand, and not only bit him in a cruel manner, but held so fast that it was with difficullty the boys hand […]