Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 1, 1879
 The Diseases Of Wild Animals. While First Surgeon of the thirty-first Regiment of the line, then stationed at Alabers, in Algeria. I dissected the carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of them were affected; one half of them were almost gone, showing that consumption [tuberculosis] is prevalent among the lions of […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897
 But Help Came, the Cub Was Rescued and the Boa Was Slain.     A boa constrictor will swallow anything at all when it wakes up hungry and finds that dinner is not ready. This is the story of a boa which swallowed a cub lion whole. The cub was recovered by an operation, but […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, June 3, 1909
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/03/1909. Â Â Â Â At M’eta, German East Africa, a native who, like all those belonging to the tribe of the Waluguru, regarded snake flesh as a special delicacy found a huge boa constrictor lying in the middle of a field. He confided the discovery to one or […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 14, 1913
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/14/1913. Â Â Â Â After destroying upwards of 2,000 vipers in the course of his career as a snake hunter, M. Henry Saussereau died recently, in Paris, from the bite of a snake. He was hunting snakes in the woods near Bouloire {Sarthe}, when a viper bit him […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 24, 1911
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville,Illinois on 11/24/1911. Â Â Â Â Mary Hooper, aged twelve years, of Valley, Pa. is the champion snake killer of that section. She has the skins of twenty-five repitiles dispatched already this season, but none of them so large as the blacksnake she killed after a battle-five feet seven inches.
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 Saturday, July 6, 1878
From the “Boston Traralier” Â Â Â Â Col. Rice, now of Gen. Miles Fifth United States Infantry, was in company on Tuesday last with a gentleman of our acquaintance, and the conversation naturally turned on Indian warfare and frontier experience, the day being the anniversary of the Custer massacre. Col. Rice, who has seen services in the […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 02/13/1903. Â Â Â Â Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, quartermaster of the British army, testified before the war inquiry commission that 349,728 horses and 53,339 mules and donkeys were lost in the South African war, enclusive of 15,960, which were lost on the voyage to South Africa.