Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 7, 1910
Reptile is so badly gashed it may die of injuries. San Francisco, Feb. 7.-A desperate battle was fought in the Golden Gate park aviary between a large golden eagle and a four-foot alligator. The fight was waged in the air, on land and in the water and the alligator was so badly gashed that it […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, May 10, 1910
J. B. Martin Suffers Injuries from Attacks of Huge Bird. Finally Compelled to Abandon Horse and Seek Safety in Brush Pile-Reaches City After Dark. Buena Vista, Cal., May 10-While J. B. Martin, a forest ranger, was riding from the mountain side west of Buena Vista he was attacked by a large eagle, which fought him […]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Published in the Bloomington Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois on Tuesday, November 23, 1920
Glencoe, Wyo., Nov. 22.-It took the combined efforts of the Spaulding family today to save 3-year-old Walter Spaulding from being carried away by a giant eagle at their ranch near here. The huge bird, with a wing spread of eight feet, attacked Walter in the ranch yard. He grasped the eagle by the neck and […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1882
L. L. Burch, of Teifair County, Georgia, killed a bald eagle which measured eight feet from tip to tip of wings. One of the feet was sent to the local newspaper office, and the claws from point to point measured eight and a third inches. The monstrous bird had a grown sheep down when M. […]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, April 22, 1837
An Eagle was lately shot on Bergen Hill, N. J. while flying over the sportsman’s head with a pig in his talons. Brought down by a wound in his wing, he fought two dogs for an hour, and drove them off, severely wounded. He was finally captured by having a sheet thrown over him. He […]
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 27, 1879
He Captured Two Large Eagles, One Alive and the Other Dead. Kansas City Journal. T. W. Wright, the well-known taxidermist, had quite a novel experience, Tuesday, which was not altogether without danger, but he was so fortunate as to escape injury, and his two trophies of his skill and prowess as momentous of the event. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 17, 1880
    A strange and nearly fatal fight between a child and an eagle took place in Pearson County, N. C. The three-year-old child of Mr. Wm. Murry was sitting on a stile feeding chickens when a large eagle swooped down at the chickens, scattering them in all directions. As the child was moving off the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 24, 1885
A Little Babe Carried Off Before Its Mother’s Eyes. Â Â Â Â Montreal, Can., Oct. 16.-Thursday morning as the wife of Jean Baptiste Romilly, a farmer in St. Vincent de Paul, a village about ten miles from Montreal, was feeding her fowls, while her child, about 2 years, was playing around, suddenly a large baldheaded eagle swooped […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 17, 1877
A boy named Ziba Lake, about 11 years of age, captured and killed an eagle on the farm of C. F. Heydecker, Esq. in Newport, a few days since. The circumstances were about as follows: The lad noticed the eagle resting upon the back of a sheep, but never having an eagle in that locality […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Wednesday, January 18, 1826
    A circumstance quite uncommon in the north, lately happened in Scania. A woman at work in the fields laid her infant on the ground, at a little distance; soon after an eagle pounced upon the infant, and carried it away. The poor woman who heard the cries of the child in the air, is […]