Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Published in the Carrollton Gazette, Carrollton, Illinois on Friday, October 2, 1846
    About the year 1830, I settled at the Lower Peach Tree, in Wilcox county Alabama, and cultivated a few acres in corn and cotton, besides a small potatoe patch and a bit of garden as was usual in those days. My nearest neighbor, John Champion, being better off than the rest of us, had […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 2, 1898
    Rufus D. Shupstring, a farmer, of Safford, Ala., noticed some time ago that one of his cows was not giving her usual quantity of milk, and, thinking that some of the negroes were milking the cow at night, set out to watch her when, to his surprise, he saw four pigs out of a […]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1881
    A singular encounter between a dog and a donkey occurred recently in Blackpool, England. The dog rushed at the donkey as he was standing in a field, and fastened on his nose. The donkey shook him off, bit him about the head and shoulders, and tossed him wildly about. The dog again seized the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 28, 1880
    There is a pig eight months old that learned to suck a cow on a ranch in Sonoma county, California. It runs with the cattle, and now, grown larger sits down deliberately to its dinner.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1902
    An Englishman residing on the island of Java reports that a large reptile was shot in a ricefield back of his bungalow which had swallowed a good sized pig. The snake measured nearly eight feet, but even considering his size the big meal must have caused him considable inconvenience, for he was unable to […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, December 29, 1880
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 12/29/1880. A Wild Animal Afflicted With Hydrophobia Creates Consternation in Christian County. Correspondence St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Â Â Â Â Reed’s Springs, Christian Co., Mo., Dec. 24.- On the evening of the 20th, while Mr. Carroll was walking home along the highway, about three miles below this place, on Bear Creek, […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, December 18, 1879
     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 […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 22, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/22/1903. Murderers Who Threw Victim’s Body To Hogs Are Sentenced. Â Â Â Â Jerry Graves and “Cal” Prince, charged with the murder of Mrs. Nellie Reicheldorfer on the 16th of March last, were found guilty by the jury at Marion, after less than an hour’s deliberation. The death […]
Published in the The Libertyville Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 6, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/06/1903.     Chicago’s consumption of livestock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of the internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph during […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Monday, December 23, 1901
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on December 23, 1901. Â Â Â Â Oakland, Neb., Dec. 23-L. Sanbloom, a farmer 88 years old, living a mile south of town, was found by his son lying helpless and unconscious in the hog yard with swine feeding on the flesh of his still warm living body. He is supposed […]