Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, February 28, 1907
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 02/28/1907.     John Jeffers writes from Olustee, Okla., that they are having an unusually large crop of snakes in that country this year. John states that when driving across a quarter section near his home recently he had to stop three times and remove the reptiles from […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 11, 1907
Brings it home alive by the nape of the neck. Â Â Â Â Dr. McConnell of Tulsa, I. T., has the latest snake story. It is a true story and hasn’t any of the dream elements about it. Â Â Â Â Dr. McConnell was sitting on the porch when he saw a cat coming up the lawn dragging a […]
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 Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 24, 1896
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 07/24/1896. Â Â Â Â Two copperhead snakes crawled into Martin Drury’s house in Blair’s valley, Franklin County, Pa. Mrs. Drury and her two little children were sleeping in a room on the ground floor. The snakes crept in to the children’s bed and bit both of them. Their […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 11, 1898
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 02/11/1898. Â Â Â Â Flagman A. J. Woods, stationed at Forsythe Junction, had a desperate encounter with a huge rattlesnake one night recently. Attracted by the flare of the watchman’s lantern, which was stationed upon the platform, the snake had crawled up and wound its large body around it. The […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, March 27, 1872
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 03/27/1872. Â Â Â Â An Arkansas paper says that in Lawrence County, as some persons were clearing some land, they set fire to a large oak log lying on the ground, when they noticed a rattlesnake crawling out from the log. They turned it over, when they discovered a den […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897
 But Help Came, the Cub Was Rescued and the Boa Was Slain.     A boa constrictor will swallow anything at all when it wakes up hungry and finds that dinner is not ready. This is the story of a boa which swallowed a cub lion whole. The cub was recovered by an operation, but […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, June 3, 1909
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/03/1909. Â Â Â Â At M’eta, German East Africa, a native who, like all those belonging to the tribe of the Waluguru, regarded snake flesh as a special delicacy found a huge boa constrictor lying in the middle of a field. He confided the discovery to one or […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 14, 1913
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/14/1913. Â Â Â Â After destroying upwards of 2,000 vipers in the course of his career as a snake hunter, M. Henry Saussereau died recently, in Paris, from the bite of a snake. He was hunting snakes in the woods near Bouloire {Sarthe}, when a viper bit him […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 24, 1911
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville,Illinois on 11/24/1911. Â Â Â Â Mary Hooper, aged twelve years, of Valley, Pa. is the champion snake killer of that section. She has the skins of twenty-five repitiles dispatched already this season, but none of them so large as the blacksnake she killed after a battle-five feet seven inches.