Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 5, 1879
M. Hugo de Koppenfels writes from Eloby, Gorisco Bay, a little colony, that he has been exploring the country during several weeks of pouring rain. He ascended the Muni, the Noya, the Balinji and the Tumbini to the first falls. In the Crystal Mountains he fell in with tribes absolutely unknown to the present, or […]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1881
We all know the nursery story of the tailor who pinched the elephant’s trunk when the intelligent animal was soliciting sweets through Snip’s open casement, and how the wise beast, on returning the same route soon afterward, regaled the tailor with a shower of muddy water she had carefully sucked up from the roadside, just […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 19, 1918
Carl E. Akeley, Naturalist, Relates Experience of Being Attacked by Massive South African Beast. The hunter and taxidermist, Carl E. Akeley, who has spent a great deal of painstaking effort in preparing the wonderful animal groups at the American Museum of Natural History, is known throughout South Africa as an elephant hunter. He has had […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, April 24, 1840
On the 24th ult. the elephant and rhinoceros, of the New York City Zoological Institute, got together and had a regular fight.-Before the keeper could part them, the rhinoceros was dead. He was valued at $15,000.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 26, 1836
“That half reasoning brute,” as he is somewhat disparingly characterized, was on board the Royal Jar steamboat, and when the flames approached him, jumped overboard, and swam two miles to a neighboring Island, where he comfortably and quietly installed himself in a barn. He was followed by a little pony also belonging to the Menagerie. […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 20, 1869
The following story has a “moral” which those who have watched the progress of the recent session of the General Assembly, as regards railway legislation may possibly appreciate. A very curious railroad accident happened recently in India. A large elephant, seeing the red light and smoke, concluded the noisy locomotive was an enemy to be […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1879
A remarkable attachment sprang up between a white camel and an elephant belonging to John Robinson’s circus. When the company started from Texas, considerable beating was required to force the camel on board the steamer, at which the elephant showed great anger, and frightened a crowd badly by rushing to the scene. After they reached […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 11, 1898
    As mentioned exclusively in Friday night’s Sun, trainer James Anderson who had charge of the elephants with the Wallace circus met a terrible death yesterday morning at Racine by being trampled and gored by one of his charges. As a large crowd was near when the accident occured it is a miracle that no […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1898
    Prince, the largest elephant of the Wallace circus died Wednesday night from lockjaw at Wabaska, Minn. It will be remembered that this beast is the one which a short time ago killed its keeper, James Anderson while the show was at Racine. Since its terrable rampage there it had been kept heavily chained. This, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1880
    There are now on exhibtion in New York two peculiar elephants brought from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, about 800 miles from Singapore. They are remarkable for their small size, being respectively twenty-eight and thirty-six inches tall; and for being covered with a thick coat of bristly hair or wool. They are supposed […]