Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 25, 1908
    A horse belonging to Fred Wright was bitten by a hog last Saturday and narrowly escaped bleeding to death, an artery being severed. Dr. Butterfield was called to care for the injured animal.
Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Tuesday, July 16, 1816
The Journal du Commerce of April 5, states, that “an ordinance of the mayor of Toulouse, dated the 28th of march, prohibits the killing of hogs, and the sale of them for food from the 1st of April.” It seems that no more mercy is shown to the swine, than to the people. This may […]
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 25, 1897
Mexico’s Wild Hogs, or Peccary, Run From Nothing Under the Sun. Â Â Â Â The most vicious and fearless of the brute creation is the peccary or wild hog of Mexico. This animal seems utterly devoid of the emotion of fear. I have never seen it turn a hair’s breadth out of its path for any living […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Monday, March 28, 1898
     George Griesbaum, a farmer near Mascoutah, was attacked by a vicious hog at his home, and sustained injuries that caused his death a short time later. He was 70 years of age, and had resided in the vicinity for half a century.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 24, 1908
    Mattoon, Ill., Sept.-As the result of a family feud, which had been running for twelve years, “Couch” Harwood shot and probably fatally wounded his brother Jeff Harwood, during a quarrel over some hogs at the home of the former, southeast of this city. The would-be murderer was placed in jail in default of $5,000 […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 24, 1899
Nervy Illinoisan Submits to the Knife Without an Anacathetic. Â Â Â Â Wallrath Mochle, a Belleville blacksmith, has lost his right leg as the result, primarily, of a hog bite three years ago. Moehle is 55 years old. Three years ago while hunting he crossed a field and as he was climbing over a fence in the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1901
An Intelligent, Large-Limbed and a Fleet-Footed Animal. Â Â Â Â The “Florida razorback” is the hog indigenous to this climate and soil. He is usually large and fleet of foot, being the only known porker that can outrun a darky. He has a tail of wondrous length, which, while he is in active motion, he twists into […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 29, 1909
The Queer Pet That Was Adopted by a Regiment. Â Â Â Â Perhaps the strangest pet that ever attracted a regiment’s fancy was a pig. She attached herself to a Kentucky regiment on the way to invade Canada during the war of 1812. Â Â Â Â As the men marched out from Harrodsburg one morning they came across two […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 12, 1897
    A large catamount entered a barnyard belonging to D. J. Parish, one mile north of Baldwin, Fla., recently, and in attempting to catch a pig was killed outright by the mother hog. This seems incredible, but it is the truth, nevertheless. The razerback proved to be somewhat of a razor front to the ferocious […]
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, February 4, 1862
    The feeding of soldiers on pork seems to have a philosophy in it. It is the meat of the best tactician among brute animals. Sillman’s Journal gives the following curious illustration of this:     A gentleman while travling some years ago, through the wilds of Vermont, perceived at a little distance before him a […]