Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    George Jenkins, of Barbour county, Alabama, killed a rattlesnake which weighed forty-two pounds, and had fourteen rattles.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 5, 1899
    An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address writen in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a women’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 3, 1877
    We were yesterday informed by Mr. Smith, living on Quapaw Bayou, that while he and his son William, aged about thirteen years were out in the woods on Monday afternoon last, driving up their cattle, their attention was attracted by the bleating of a calf. Thinking the animal was probably bogged, they discovered a […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 6, 1877
    Mr. Sam Gentry, living in the adjacent county of Stewart, has in his possession a purse made of the tanned skin of a rattlesnake, which he caught and killed under the following circumstances: In going along a wheat field he came across the snake lying at full length before him, manifesting no disposition to […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 17, 1876
    This seems to be the time of year when snakes are most abundant. We learn from Mr. A. J. Hoffman, who lives in the north part of the county, that on the last Friday, as one of the hired men was going down a small gulch, he came upon a perfect nest of squirming […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, August 3, 1870
From the Columbus {Ohio] News. A farmer was living on the west side of the river, in walking about his place, discovered a nest of rattlesnakes in an old log about which several large pieces of rock lay scattered. Our friend had heard that hogs were death on snakes of all sorts, and not caring […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 15, 1870
The Secretary of the Treasury on Wednesday week received from San Francisco, California, a box of dead snakes, bugs, flies, and centipedes, a grim looking collection of Chinese reptiles which had been consigned to a firm in that city, by the firm of Yo Chy Tong & Co., of Canton, to be used by the […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, May 16, 1901
How Chance Agencies Convey Stray Brutes From One Locality to Another. The manner in which animals may be conveyed from one area or region to another by what may be called chance agencies, has always formed a subject of much interest in the eyes of naturalists. The same opinions may be expressed of the dispersal […]
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 2, 1879
Richmond [Va.] Dispatch. The late Isaac White; of Farmington, Albemarle County, told me the following, which he got from Mrs. Marks. Meriwether Lewis, who first explored the Upper Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and Oregon had started one afternoon to cross the Blue Ridge, and when near the summit was arrested by the spectacle of two […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 11, 1922
Reptile Seemed to Have Small Chance Against the Little though Fierce Birds. Â Â Â Â We soon found that there were two sparrow-hawks about, and by the 7th of March it seemed evident that they were mated and were considering the locality as a summer residence. Â Â Â Â We now saw them almost daily, and the perfect domestic […]