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Western Matters,Wolves.

       Attacked By Wolves.,-The Boyer Valley [Crawford County] Record says the mail carrier between that place and Dacatur was lately attacked at night by a hundred or more hungry wolves. He put whip to his horse and reached a tree just as the wolves came up around him. Leaping from his horse to the […]

Trapper Devoured By Wolves.

  Minnesota Man’s Head Found-His Two Horses Also Eaten.      The remains of Andrew Sands, a Minnesota trapper, and his two horses have been found near Dodds, Minn. The bodies of the man and his horses had been devoured by wolves and just enough remained of Sands’ head to make identification possible. Wolves are so […]

Wolf Playing ‘Possum.

  Garnett, Kansas Journal      Reuben Lowry, of Walker Township, Anderson County, Kansas, was out hunting wolves one day during this snow. He got track of a wolf, and with his dogs followed to the timber, where he overtook it, and the dogs and the wolf fought in the snow. Uncle Reuben, however, who was […]

Cattle Thrown Into The Sea.

Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/19/1897.      The Beaver line steamer Lake Winnipeg, Capt. Taylor, twenty-five days out from St. John, N. B., has arrived in Liverpool. Capt. Taylor reports having had a terrible voyage, during which the vessel had such a large quantity of water in the engine room that […]

Attacked By Wolves.

  St. Cloud Minn. Journal      About 10 o’clock last Saturday night, as Mr. Miner, of the town of Laugola, Benton County, was driving from his own house to Mr. Morrill’s, having with him his wife and three children, he was attacked by five large timber wolves. The fiece beasts sprang at his horses, and […]

A Tale Of Two Skulls.

  Virginia City Enterprise.      A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a friend in this city, tells of a horrible reminder of the fearful snow storms of last winter, and of the perils of those who were caught out and lost their way on the plains. He says that recently, while he and […]

Wolves In Russia

       In the district of Waldat, Russia, wolves are making great ravages this year, and it is feared that the losses of the peasants will surpass those of 1878. The bill of slaughter for this year alone in the above district includes 276 horses, 851 colts, 1,653 sheep, 237 cows, 740 calves, and 295 […]

Animal Sagacity.

From the “Boston Traralier”      Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth United States Infantry, was in company on Tuesday last with a gentleman of our acquaintance, and the conversation naturally turned on Indian warfare and frontier experience, the day being the anniversary of the Custer massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen services in the […]

War Cost 349,728 Horses.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 02/13/1903.      Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, quartermaster of the British army, testified before the war inquiry commission that 349,728 horses and 53,339 mules and donkeys were lost in the South African war, enclusive of 15,960, which were lost on the voyage to South Africa.

Sixty Horses Burn.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/11/1903. Fire Does $263,000 Damages In Pittsburg. Flames, Which Start In Livery Stable, Sweep Nearly A Square Of Buildings.      Fire which broke out in the large stable of the Allegheny Transfer Company at Sixteenth street and Liberty avenue, Pittsburg, at 2 0’clock Tuesday morning resulted in […]