Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 21, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 01/21/1902. Story of Judge Baker, a Recent Appointee of Roosevelt.     Judge Baker, who has been appointed to the supreme bench of New Mexico, had as exciting adventure with Indians near Caridon twenty years ago, and when he emerged from a cave, where he had taken refuge […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 4, 1898
     Wild animals and snakes in India seem to kill more human beings than all our punitive expeditions taken together. The statistics of the loss of human life and cattle by wild animals and venomous snakes in the Central provinces of India have been issued. Although the totals show some decrease from last year, […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1901
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/07/ 1901. Â Â Â Â John Rhodes, an old recluse, who lived in a lonely hut in the southern part of Washington County, was found dead. There were evidences of foul play and the coroner and a number of citizens made as examination of the cabin, which resulted […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 1, 1880
     A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewing the many good works done by the English for the people of India, notes among other things, the almost total extermination of wild animals in that country.     As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew closer together toward the centre of a district, he […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1905
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 1905/06/09. Gigantic Snake Injures Baby Girl Near Kewanee. Â Â Â Â When Mrs. F. H. Dunn, living at the eastern part of Elmira township, ten miles southeast of Kewanee, began her housework the other morning she left her infant daughter on a piece of carpet on the porch. […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 23, 1905
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on June 23, 1905. Fierce Combat Takes Place In Ohio Schoolhouse. Boy finds five blacksnakes in water pail and summons help to dispatch them. Â Â Â Â Two women and a 10-year-old boy had a ferocious battle with five monster blacksnakes at the Smith Chapel school house near Logan, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 22, 1881
Pulished in The Waukegan Gazette on October 22, 1881. Â Â Â Â A little son of Abraham May, of Miller Township, Blair County, Pa. was bitten by a copperhead snake a few days since. After biting, the reptile kept fastening and coiling around the lad’s legs, and it was only torn from its coil by the brave […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1874
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 3, 1874. Â Â Â Â A well-disposed black snake joined the worshippers in a Petersburg [Va.] church, and finding the pews all full, took a seat on a rafter. But when, after the benediction, he came down to go out, there was dismay in the congregation. There need not have […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1857
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 3, 1857. Â Â Â Â A man named Wirsen, a swede, who has recently been exhibiting a number of rattlesnakes in various parts of California, and who fancied he had acquired a power over them which would prevent them from biting him, was severely bitten by one of them upon […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 28, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 28, 1922. Â Â Â Â At the Bruce Museum of Natural History at Greenwich, Conn., there is quite a collection of snakes, some of which were captured during the past summer upon country expeditions of patrons of the institution. One of these contributions, a garter snake, was […]