Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 7, 1900
     While a number of settlers near Roseau, Minn. were burying a little girl they were attacked by wolves, which severely bit several persons in attempts to get at the body.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, October 4, 1916
Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette Published: October 4, 1916 Leitchfield, Ky.-Henry Cecil of Cecilia in a lake near his home has devised a most successful and novel way to catch fish, according to Roy Bond. Cecil has a number of ducks that frequent this lake. He ties a short fishing line to the duck’s foot […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, August 28, 1880
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 28, 1880. Â Â Â Â A large Newfoundland dog, accompanied by a small black and tan, visited a Hartford police officer’s yard and deliberately killed a pet Scotch terrier belonging to the house. The two strange dogs carried the body away, finally leaving it on Windsor avenue.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 24, 1896
Published by The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on April 24, 1896. Â Â Â Â Bessie Rooney, the 10-year-old sister of Michael Rooney, the bareback rider, was about to be hugged to death by a bear the other day at Tattersall’s circus in Chicago, when Babylon, one of Ringling Brothers’ big elephants, knocked the brute down and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, February 1, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 1, 1922. Â Â Â Â A burglar arrested at Hampstead had in his possession a cage of rats. The police said that his method was to open a window, turn in a rat, and then set his terrier after it. If there were wires or other burglar […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, May 21, 1881
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on May 21, 1881. Â Â Â Â An eagle was shot in Lapland on the neck of which was a brass chain with a small tin-box attached. This box contained a slip of paper on which was written in Danish: “Caught and set free again in 1792 by N. and C. Anderson, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, March 25, 1898
Waukegan Daily Sun Published: March 25, 1898 The drug used by the Chinese in catching fish is Coculus indicus, which is powdered and mixed with dough and scattered broadcast over the water after the manner of sowing seed. The fish seize and devour it with avidity and instantly become intoxicated and turn up by hundreds […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 17, 1905
 Minnesota man’s life saved by a match. Treed by wolves, He ignites coat of one of the animals by dropping light upon it and all flee to timber.     Hans Peterson, a farmer of Walworth county, Wis., conceived an original way of escaping from a pack of wolves that gave him chase and treed […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, December 13, 1873
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on December 13, 1873. Â Â Â Â They had a miracle near Belvidere last week. A sick man’s son went out and beat about the bush all afternoon to get a nice, tender partidge for him, and just as he reached the house at night; tired, faint and empty-handed and thinking how […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 3, 1901
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on May 3, 1901. Brute Is Then Given Strychnine and Shot to Death. Â Â Â Â Henry Hoffman, elephant man of Benjamin Wallace’s circus, was killed by “Charlie,” a monster tusk elephant, and the beast was then put to death. Hoffman and his men had all the elephant’s in […]