Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 16, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on May 16, 1902. Â Â Â Â Jacob Roth, aged 67, one of the wealthiest farmers of Meigs Township, Ohio, met a horrible death. A savage boar which he was trying to separate from some other hogs, turned upon and gored him. He died in three minutes.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 15, 1900
Published in The Lake Count Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on June 15, 1900. County Recorder in Iowa Dismembered by Porcine Brutes. Â Â Â Â The body of former County Recorder J. P. Suttman of Grundy County was found in a hog pen at Grundy Center, badly mutilated by the swine. He had attempted to clean the pen, had […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 14, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on September 14, 1894. Â Â Â Â A frightful duel with knives was fought by two prominent farmers, Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy, near Polkville, Ky. Murphy’s hogs broke into Osborn’s cornfield, and this caused the trouble. The two cut and slashed each other in a frightful manner, and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, February 8, 1873
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on February 8, 1873. Â Â Â Â A lad of eight was killed and eaten by hogs, in Huntington county, Indiana, a short time since.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, February 21, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 21, 1922. Â Â Â Â A strange case of maternal devotion is reported by an Ontario farmer who has a sow with a litter that has adopted a half-grown kitten and permits it to nurse with her babies and to sleep with them. The kitten has been […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, September 17, 1897
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on September 17, 1897. Â Â Â Â A desperate fight between a horse and a boar, which resulted in the death of both animals, is reported from the county line eighteen miles north of Warsaw, Ind. The animals were on the farm of Arthur Munson and got together in a field, when […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily-Sun on Friday, July 8, 1898
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on July 8, 1898. Â Â Â Â A coasting steamer was wrecked near Sydney, N. S. W. The captain tied life lines to some pigs which formed part of the cargo. These on being thrown over-board quickly swam ashore, taking the lines with them. Communication being thus established, every person on board […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894.     P. W. Schenck, a New York banker who has interests in Montana, told of a rancher buying 1,000 range horses in Fergus County, Montana, for $3 a head. He says that the man who bought them slaughtered them, after which he boiled the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 25, 1895
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on January 25, 1895. Â Â Â Â While passing through a hog lot the 5-year-old daughter of John Parham, of Homer, was attacked by the vicious animals and was thrown down to the ground. But for the timely arrival of her mother she would have been killed.
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 16, 1886
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 16, 1886. Â Â Â Â Of a train of hogs which arrived Friday at Kansas City, seven- carloads had been frozen to death.