Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
A recent writer in the Field newspaper gives the dimensions of an old Indian elephant, which would scarcely have been much inferior in size to a mastadon. According to his account the animal measured 11 and three-quarters feet in height at the shoulders, 25 feet 5 inches from the tip of the trunk to the […]
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, January 14, 1910
At the conclusion of a children’s performance at Old Meldrum an elephant proceeded along a narrow road with a pail in its trunk for the purpose of procuring water from a pump. A little girl chanced to get in the animal’s way, and the road being only wide enough to accommodate his substantial body, the […]
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1875
It would be too long to relate all the uses to which elephants are applied in Burma. Let us watch them at work among the woodyards where the logs of the tickwood tree, which come floating down the river, are plied. Every working elephant is mounted by a driver called a “cornac,” whose principal business […]
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 19, 1900
London, Feb. 19.-An exciting scene took place at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Sunday afternoon. Two large elephants belonging to the circus ran amuck, killed their keeper and gored another man. There was a terrible panic in the audience attending the concert in the palace. One animal was captured after great damage to property. The other […]
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 3, 1898
How Moses Smith’s Eccentric Notion Made a Fortune for Another Man. It is not generally known that a former citizen of Owensboro brought across the ocean the first elephant that was ever in America, says the Owensboro (Ky.) Inquirer. The name of the gentleman was Moses Smith, who at one time owned a vast body […]
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 10, 1899
Big Elephant Wintering at Argentine Kan., Crushes Frank Fisher to Death. Kansas City, Mo., April 10.-“Rajah,” a mammoth elephant owned by Lemen Bros’. Circus company, which has been wintering in Argentine, Kan., near here, on Sunday killed its keeper, Frank Fisher. Fisher had returned to the tent intoxicated and tried to make the different animals […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, February 24, 1855
An elephant, valued at $50,000 died of sea sickness, on its way from Calcutta to Boston, at which latter port the vessel has just arrived. It is said his sufferings were in proportion to his size.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, January 1, 1853
A correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, writing from Athens county, Ohio, on the 17th inst., relates the following: “I have just been wandering about the country in search of land belonging to some clients of mine; and in doing so have met with many amusing incidents. Only the other day, as a caravan of rare […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850
A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 1, 1851
We are glad to learn that Mr. S. B. June, whom we formerly announced as having to come from America for a cargo of elephants, has succeeded in procuring the object of his search. Mr. June, a perfect stranger to the country, went into the interior, and succeeded in picking up between 20 and 30 […]