Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 30, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 10/30/1903. Charles Wyngate of Farmington Is Killed By Strychnine. Â Â Â Â Charles Wyngate of Farmington, aged 60 years is dead from poisoning by strychine. Mrs. Wyngate, who has been much troubled by rats, made two pies the other day. One of these she prepared for table use; […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 9, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 10/09/1903. Â Â Â Â Henri Choupin, a French naturalist, draws attention to the fact that animals as a rule are wonderfully neat and far excel human beings in this respect. It has taken men, he says, several centuries to learn the virtues of neatness and cleanliness, whereas animals […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 18, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/18/1903. Â Â Â Â A Dutch traveler, Kurt Dinter, who has just returned from southern Africa, says that one day, while in camp in Hottentot land, he heard a rushing sound as if rain were falling in torrents. Not far away it seemed to him as if a […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 15, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Armed with a pitchfork a farmer’s wife holds animal at bay. Â Â Â Â Armed with a pitchfork, Mrs. James Morton, a farmer’s plucky wife, living near Flanders, N. J., for nearly an hour kept at bay a vicious bull that had attacked and nearly killed her […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 15, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Accident to New Jersey man causes bird to cry for help. Â Â Â Â Attracted by cries of “Murder,” “Help!” “Come quick!” neighbors of George H. Andrews of Washington, N. J. ran to his house to find out the cause. They knew the cries were made by […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 1, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 5/1/1903. Mrs. Maria Parr of South Bartonville died at the Cotage hospital in Peoria as the result of a cat’s bite. Two weeks before her pet lacerated her hand while at play. She immediately was seized with hysteria and at the end of four days acute […]
Published in the The Libertyville Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 6, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/06/1903.     Chicago’s consumption of livestock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of the internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph during […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois Woman Accused of Killing and Grinding Up Her Husband. Mrs. Lafayette Taylor is a prisoner in Monticello, N. Y., charged with killing her husband on Tuesday, Jan. 27. On that day Lafe Taylor disappeared and his wife told the neighbors he had gone to Ellensville on business. […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sunday, June 11, 1876
 The Philadelphia Times describes a couple of remarkable women who are connected with the centennial Exhibition. One of these is Miss Emma Allison, of Ontario, who has the entire charge of the Baxter portable engine of six-horse power. She is by no means a soot-be-grimed and oil-covered amazon, but, on the contrary, of neat, […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 5, 1880
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 06/05/1880. Helena [M. T.] Independent. Â Â Â Â On Saturday, the 8th last., Hannibal Roe, the best known hunter in Montana, met with an adventure which maimed him for life. He had gone up the Little Prickly Pear to Wolf Creek Station, and with his gun in good condition, he […]