Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 19, 1738
They write from Lee in Kent, England that all the cattle and horses belonging to Mr. Smith of that town, has had the misfortune to be bit by a mad dog and have been drove down to the sea and into the water to prevent if possible, the ill effects of the bite.
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois
Mr. O. M. Hopkins, late of Scottsburg, who died in January last, had a small and sprightly terrier, named “Nig,” of which he was very fond. After the death of his master, Nig grew melancholy. Nothing the family could do seemed to amuse him. He could not be enticed from the side of his mistress, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1901
While men ran away a woman threw a supposedly mad dog over the Randolph street viaduct at Chicago.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, February 11, 1908
Gather in Large Numbers on South Sheridan Road. Residents in Neighborhood Threaten to Shoot Pack Unless They Depart for Other Shores. Residents of South Sheridan road witnessed this morning the fiercest dog fight Waukegan has ever had. For the past three or four days scores of dogs have been congregating about this district but no […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 3, 1880
Cyprus is afflicted with a plague of dogs, which, it is stated, are even more numerous and useless than they are in Constantinople. They infest the various towns and their outskirts, and are at the present time a source not only of annoyance but of danger, for the cattle disease which, although diminishing, still prevails […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 28, 1899
55 Animals Killed Outright Many More Wounded. Last night dogs created havoc among a large flock of sheep on the Clay farm just north of town. Fifty-five fine specimens were killed outright and a large number more were injured so badly that many will without doubt die. The loss is estimated at about $400 which […]
Friday, November 21, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 4, 1897
Puppy Killed by Cyelist, Its Mother Attacked All Bicyelists. Wheelmen were attacked by a dog the other day, one after another. It was no ordinary vicious brute, but a dog seeking vengeance. It is dead now, and the bicyclists who shot at it fruitlessly and swore at it ferociously are sorry. The dog had a […]
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903
Farmers residing in the town of Bristol fear an epidemic of hydrophobia among the sheep of Kenosha county. A short time ago a mad dog passed through that section of the county and bit a number of sheep. In one flock, belonging to William Stevens, five sheep have already gone mad and, breaking from their […]
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1859
Greenly writes a long letter describing his trip from Denver City to the mouth of the Platte River. He thus relates a discussion that occurred one night around the campfire. “By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions-all mountaineers of ripe experience-as to the relative merits of certain meats, of […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 31, 1902
Carries Three-Year-Old Florence Rogers Through Flames. The hero of the fire brigade along the border between Yuba and Butte counties, Cal., is a great Dane, that fought his way through the flames bearing in his jaws the living body of 3-year-old Florence Rogers. The parents of the child, when the alarm of fire was given, […]