Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 30, 1877
     Washington, D. C., June 29,-The investigation into the losses of sheep during the past year shows a total of nearly 3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by dogs and wolves and various diseases and the aggregate money value of nearly $8,000,000. The average percentage of loss was nearly 8 percent. The proportion is […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 6, 1878
From the “Boston Traralier” Â Â Â Â Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth United States Infantry, was in company on Tuesday last with a gentleman of our acquaintance, and the conversation naturally turned on Indian warfare and frontier experience, the day being the anniversary of the Custer massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen services in the […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Saturday, August 12, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 12, 1922. Â Â Â Â Frogmore, La. 12-When quail season rolls around, Colonel Tucker Gibson shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsy, America’s only hunting hog. Â Â Â Â And he comes home with his game bag filled. Â Â Â Â Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, March 13, 1880
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on March 13, 1880. Â Â Â Â A Georgia man fired seven shots at a wild cat, killed his dog, wounded a farmer in the leg, and put out one of his own eyes out. The wild cat escaped.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Tuesday, July 26, 1904
Published on August 26, 1904 in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois. Â Â Â Â Three eagles attacked and killed a cow belonging to Aaron Whitsoh of Garden City, Kan. They also picked up and carried about twenty-five yards a dog that weighed thirty-five pounds.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, December 8, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 8, 1922. Â Â Â Â Curing St. Vitus dance by having a poodle dog sleep with the patient has been announced by a Denver women as the most effective remedy she has found yet for her two daughters. Â Â Â Â The woman, Mrs. J. C. Morris of 2064 […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 29, 1901
     Details of a thrilling fight in which an enormous timber wolf vanquished a pack of eighteen hounds has reached Mattoon. It occured on the Cizemore farm, near Marley, and was witnessed by Siebert Scott, William Creech and Mark Davidson, who were at work in a sugar camp. They saw the wolf running, followed […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, August 4, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 4, 1922. Six thousand persons signed a petition to save the life of a dog which a London [England] magistrate had ordered to be killed on account of its alleged ferocity.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894. Â Â Â Â Henry and Barney Chasteen, residing at Holman, Ind. went coon hunting. A coon ran up a tree and Henry climed the tree after him. He perched himself on a limb and was about to fire when the limb broke, precipitating him to […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, August 28, 1880
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 28, 1880. Â Â Â Â A large Newfoundland dog, accompanied by a small black and tan, visited a Hartford police officer’s yard and deliberately killed a pet Scotch terrier belonging to the house. The two strange dogs carried the body away, finally leaving it on Windsor avenue.