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Thieves Chloroform Hogs

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on  February 28, 1910. Thus Prevent Animals From Squealing In Alarm.      Aurora, Ill., Feb. 28-Chloroforming hogs is the unusual occupation followed by Frank Baker and Eugene Raymer, who, with Frank Licher and Earl and Archie Runkle, were given a preliminary hearing before Justice Vanosdal. Baker and […]

Hog Causes Double Crime.

Published in The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on November 13, 1903. Makes Farmer Angry And He Shoots His Wife And Himself.      Calvin E. Wade, a prominent farmer of Chenango County, N. Y.. shot and fatally wounded his wife and then killed himself. He had been vainly trying to drive a hog through […]

Wild Hogs As Watchdogs.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on March 6, 1916.      In some parts of Mexico the wild hogs, which the natives call jaballs, are used as watchdogs. If they are caught young and brought up with goats they will go out into the hills with the herd and fight coyotes or other […]

A Hard Bite.

Published in The Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois, on September 2, 1862.      Turner, of the City Meat Market, while butchering a porker last week, received a severe bite in the thigh, which confines him to the house. This will account for his being unable at present to serve his customers from the wagon.

Hog Was Tenacious Of Life.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on June 1, 1900. J. A. Graybeal of Rosemond township tells of an interesting hog story. Some months ago a cyclone occured on his farm, which, among other damage done, blew over a straw stack, and at the same time two hogs mysteriously disappeared. He searched in […]

A Pig That Knows His Way Home.

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 24, 1878.      One of the most remarkable cases of instinct that was ever heard of came under our personal observation a few days ago. Mr. Deveaux, the county jailer, was presented with a small pig by a friend living about four miles from town, and it was […]

Wedding Ends A Bloody Feud.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on April 23, 1897. Hatfield-McCoy Vendetta Is Declared Off After Fifteen Years.      The bloodest feud that ever made life in the south uncertain has come to a close. The Hatfield-McCoy vendetta has been nullified by the marriage of Aaron Hatfield and Mary McCoy. Five dollars worth of mountain […]

Hog Caused His Death.

Published in The Lake County Independent on November 26, 1897.      At Milan, Mo., Thomas Epperson of Lancaster, while attemping to load hogs, was bitten through the thigh, severing an artery. He bled to death in thirty minutes.

Pigs

Published in The Lake County Independent on March 1, 1895.      An unheard-of procedure on the part of feeders of swine is being practiced by some farmers around Bowen. They are buying plug horses and feeding them to hogs. John Mark has fed to his hogs about sixty-horses, and Jess Find, another hog raiser, has […]

Grasshopper Trapper Finds Pigs Dote On The New Delicacy

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 18, 1919.      Pana, Ill. Aug. 17.-Finding that his second clover crop was being destroyed by grasshoppers, Cyrus W. Rayhill spent $19 to build a grasshopper trap. Last week he caught eighteen bushels of grasshoppers. He dried the insects and fed them to the hogs […]