Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 2, 1858
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 2, 1858 Â Â Â Â The village of Moline, on the Rock Island, R. R., was visited by a very destructive fire last week, making the second which has occured there within a month. The last fire destroyed about 25,000 worth of property, consisting of stores, offices, etc. Mr. Jacob […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Sunday, January 1, 1899
Waukegan Daily Sun Published: January 1, 1899 Mrs. Peter Minetti of Belleville owns a monkey and confines it in a wire cage. The other day Mrs. Minetti put some fresh coal in the grate fire, locked up the house and went to visit some friends. A lump of burning coal fell to the floor and […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1901
     Details of a ferocious attack of a pack of wolves upon Linley, the 12-year-old son of F. M. Bane, a tenant farmer living near the Kansas line, reached Mattoon the other day. Young Bane at dusk rode on horsrback to bring home the cows. As he passed a small grove fourteen grey wolves, […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Friday, June 30, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on June 30, 1922. Pet dogs have become so popular among the feminine population of Berlin that theater managers have been compelled to install rooms where the dogs may be checked. Some patrons complain that none of the theaters has made similar provision for checking babies, and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, July 17, 1869
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on July 17, 1869. Â Â Â Â The Bloomington Reader says Dr. Harrison Noble, of Heyworth, in McLean county, had 80 sheep killed and 170 mortally wounded the other night by two dogs. The dogs would catch the sheep by the neck and hold them down until dead, or nearly so. When […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Thursday, November 13, 1919
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 13, 1919. Â Â Â Â An elephant’s foot takes longer to cook than any other meat. To make it tender it must be boiled for thirty-six hours.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, March 20, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on March 20, 1922. Â Â Â Â Indians are very fond of dogs, and around every wigwam, tepee, hut, or wherever they reside, there are always from 6 to 20 wolfish dogs. An Indian dog loves an Indian and hates a white man with equal intensity. When a white […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 6, 1901
     News has come from Gilmour and Houston’s lumber camp at Bark Lake on the Gatineau that Edward Connor, 18 years old, a lumberman, had been eaten by wolves.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, August 16, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 16, 1922. There is mourning at the home of A. J. Burton Waukegan’s laundryman. “BOB” the bull pup, who had made his home there for six years, has gone to his reward. Sickness cut “BOB” down in the flower of his youth the dog being […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, September 26, 1885
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on September 26, 1885. Â Â Â Â Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 18-A. Haight, of Barnum’s show said Thursday that Jumbo was killed while trying to save Tom Thumb from impending death. As Jumbo saw the train, which was only when it was close upon him, he made a rush for his protage, […]