Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901
Published on February 22, 1901 in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois.     A bald eagle tried to carry off the 5-year-old boy of John Bullock, living in Illinois opposite Mount Vernon, Ind. The child was in the yard playing when attacked by the eagle. The mother heard the child’s scream and ran from the house and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, March 13, 1880
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on March 13, 1880. Â Â Â Â A Georgia man fired seven shots at a wild cat, killed his dog, wounded a farmer in the leg, and put out one of his own eyes out. The wild cat escaped.
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, July 25, 1885
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on July 25, 1885. Â Â Â Â Barnam’s elephant, Albert, which killed his keeper last Saturday, was taken to the Keene, N. H., suburbs Monday afternoon and shot, thirty-three members of a militia company firing at the beast at the same time. The remains will be sent to the Smithsonian institution at […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, December 8, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 8, 1922. Â Â Â Â Curing St. Vitus dance by having a poodle dog sleep with the patient has been announced by a Denver women as the most effective remedy she has found yet for her two daughters. Â Â Â Â The woman, Mrs. J. C. Morris of 2064 […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Tuesday, July 26, 1904
Published on August 26, 1904 in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois. Â Â Â Â Three eagles attacked and killed a cow belonging to Aaron Whitsoh of Garden City, Kan. They also picked up and carried about twenty-five yards a dog that weighed thirty-five pounds.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 29, 1901
     Details of a thrilling fight in which an enormous timber wolf vanquished a pack of eighteen hounds has reached Mattoon. It occured on the Cizemore farm, near Marley, and was witnessed by Siebert Scott, William Creech and Mark Davidson, who were at work in a sugar camp. They saw the wolf running, followed […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, February 28, 1874
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on February 28, 1874. An eagle recently attemped to carry off a girl fourteen years old. The bird found its prey too heavy to raise more than four or five feet from the ground and finally droped her. The girl was terribly lacerated by the talons of the eagle.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, August 4, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 4, 1922. Six thousand persons signed a petition to save the life of a dog which a London [England] magistrate had ordered to be killed on account of its alleged ferocity.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, January 19, 1910
 A bloody knife found in snow indicates he fought for his life.     Vienna, Jan. 19-While Baron Ottirhan, a Hungerian magnate, age seventy years, was riding on his estate in Transylvania, he was chased by hunger pinched wolves.     His horse became frenzied and threw the baron who was devoured by the wolves.     […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894. Â Â Â Â Henry and Barney Chasteen, residing at Holman, Ind. went coon hunting. A coon ran up a tree and Henry climed the tree after him. He perched himself on a limb and was about to fire when the limb broke, precipitating him to […]