Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, June 23, 1922
Alice Rips Up Stake as Lion Claws Her Trunk in the Circus Tent. Herd Head Saves Day. Alice, a couple of tons of elephantine flesh got frightened last night and nearly went on a rampage that might have given Golimar Brothers circus a safe full of small change if Lizzie, the lead of the herd, […]
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 9, 1848
About the moment of the Cambria’s departure from Liverpool last Saturday, a dreadful occurrence was taking place at the Zoological Gardens near that town. As one of the keepers was engaged in his usual office of cleaning out the den of the Elephant “Rajah,” he struck the animal a blow with the broom to make […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, August 2, 1832
The battering train going to the siege of Seringapatam had to cross the sandy bed of a river, that resembled other rivers of the Peninsula, which have during the dry season, but a small stream of water running through them, though their beds are mostly of a considerable breadth, very heavy for draught, and abounding […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 8, 1848
The Cape Frontier Times gives the following account of a sporting expedition of eleven months duration, the here of which is Mr. Ruallyn Cumming, second son of Sir William Gordon Cumming Bart., of Altyre, who a few years ago, was the foremost sportsman in the north of Ireland: “In this expedition it is said he […]
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 15, 1890
Wild Scenes Caused by the Stampede of a Circus in Africa. Diamond Fields [Africa] Advertiser: Shortly after 11 o’clock last night a general stampede of all the animals comprising Fillis’ menagerie took place. This appalling occurrence is attributed to a miscreant-at present at large-who, possessed of a grudge against Mr. Fillis or members of his […]
Friday, December 14, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, February 3, 1848
The tragical event at the menagerie, resulting in the death of poor Kelly, has made the elephant the chief lion of Philadelphia. A morning or two after the terrible occurrence, the daring Driesbach took him into the ring for the purpose of dressing his wounds, made by sundry thrusts of pikes, lances, and pitchforks, in […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 23, 1848
A writer in a Cincinnati paper, describing a midnight visit to the animals of Raymond and Waring’s menagerie, in the winter quarters in that city with Driesbach, the famous keeper, says: “It was a sight worth walking ten miles. We found, contrary to assertions of natural historians, an elephant lying down. It has always been […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, April 17, 1845
The New Orleans Bee of March 10, says-“We learn by a gentleman who came passenger last evening on the steamer Princess, that the large male elephant of Messrs Hopkins & Co’s Menagerie, on Saturday morning killed the person who had been for some length of time employed to take charge of it. It appears that […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1882
One of Barnum’s elephants sits in a chair, drinks from a bottle, wipes his mouth with a napkin, and then calmly fans himself. This entirely upset the gravity of Evangelist George Pentecost, who was one of the visitors to the quarters on a recent afternoon; and when he saw the napkin deftly picked from the […]
Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 4, 1881
In Forepaugh’s Great Show, which is to exhibit here on Monday, June 13th, there will be presented the extraordinary spectacle of twenty elephants all performing in the arena at the same time. The Philadelphia News, alluding to this feature of Mr. Forepaugh’s show says: “This mighty herd of mastodons file into the grand amphitheater like […]