Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the The Evanston Daily, Evanston, Illinois on Wednesday, October 22, 1913
An African hunter once found a large crocodile hanging in the fork of a tree about ten feet from the ground. As the place was fully half a mile from any water, it was difficult to account for the crocodile’s strange position. When questioned upon the subject the natives explained that it was put there […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 12, 1898
How a Hindoo Can Tell When the Animal Intends to Destroy Him. Few more impressive confidences can be imparted than one in which a Hindoo describes how he knows his elephant intends to destroy him. It is all so seemingly trivial, and yet in reality of such deadly significance. His story is full of details […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 2, 1898
An Instance Which Shows That Dumb Beasts Can Be as Kind as Men. A herd of wild Asian buffaloes will charge any foe, even a tiger, to save the life of one of their number who has been wounded. Elephants, baboons and other animals will do the same in a wild state. On the other […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 2, 1907
Woman Related Here Did Remarkable Feat In Africa. Her Shot Brought Down Elephant Larger Than the Fabled Jumbo. Tale Told in Chicago. Mrs. Carl E. Akeley, wife of the chief taxidermist of the Field Museum and sister-in-law to T. E. Akeley of Third street, Waukegan, killed the biggest elephant ever bagged by an American and […]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 9, 1906
An elephant of a traveling circus managed to get loose the other day and went for a walk up Bubbling Well road, finally entering a garden where a lady was sitting on a veranda, when the intelligent animal broke some flowers and handed them to her and then dropped on his knees. He was evidently […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 8, 1907
Probably all readers are familiar with the fact that in their native countries elephants are not only used to aid in the capture of their own species, but also in pursuit of various wild beasts of the jungle. In tiger hunting especially is this the case, the elephant is rather an unwilling participant. In his […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 1, 1880
A writer from India tells the following: One day two ladies were watching some elephants being fed near their camp in the jungles of the Central Provinces, when the two unfortunately took it into her head to offer one of the elephants a very hot chapatti, which is a cake made of flour and baked […]
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 14, 1903
Over Score Of People Killed And Fifty Hurt. Circus Trains Collide at Durand, Mich., and Men and Animals Perish-Wallace Brothers Show in Terrible Accident-Air Breaks Fail. Twenty-two persons were killed and about fifty injured in a wreck on the Grand Trunk road a mile from Durand, Mich., Friday. One section of Wallace Brothers circus train […]
Monday, December 31, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, November 23, 1833
Elephants are now used in Ceylon for plowing the rice fields, and in preparing new grounds for the cultivation of coffee, pepper, Etc. An elephant will perform the work in one day which twenty bullocks [oxen] were in the habit of performing before.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, January 20, 1848
One of the elephants in Raymond & Waring’s extensive menagerie, exhibiting in Philadelphia, turned on his keeper on Wednesday, 22d. We find the following particulars in the Philadelphia papers! As his keeper, Wm. Kelly, was preparing him for the afternoon performance, in consequence of being struck, he seized Mr. K. with his trunk and raising […]