Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 11, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/11/1903. Fire Does $263,000 Damages In Pittsburg. Flames, Which Start In Livery Stable, Sweep Nearly A Square Of Buildings.     Fire which broke out in the large stable of the Allegheny Transfer Company at Sixteenth street and Liberty avenue, Pittsburg, at 2 0’clock Tuesday morning resulted in […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, May 15, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Switch Engine Backs in on Side Track and Takes Horses Away. A Sterling man, owner of a fine driving team, has had one of the greatest experiences on record. Driving to one of of the town factories he had occasion to alight and go into […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 3, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 07/03/1903. Â Â Â Â William Biddie Williams of Philadelphia, one of the ushers in the recent Hanna-McCormick wedding and formerly of Yale, stopped a runaway horse in Sheridan road, Chicago, and saved children in its path.
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 1, 1880
     A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewing the many good works done by the English for the people of India, notes among other things, the almost total extermination of wild animals in that country.     As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew closer together toward the centre of a district, he […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1905
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 1905/06/09. Gigantic Snake Injures Baby Girl Near Kewanee. Â Â Â Â When Mrs. F. H. Dunn, living at the eastern part of Elmira township, ten miles southeast of Kewanee, began her housework the other morning she left her infant daughter on a piece of carpet on the porch. […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 23, 1905
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on June 23, 1905. Fierce Combat Takes Place In Ohio Schoolhouse. Boy finds five blacksnakes in water pail and summons help to dispatch them. Â Â Â Â Two women and a 10-year-old boy had a ferocious battle with five monster blacksnakes at the Smith Chapel school house near Logan, […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 22, 1881
Pulished in The Waukegan Gazette on October 22, 1881. Â Â Â Â A little son of Abraham May, of Miller Township, Blair County, Pa. was bitten by a copperhead snake a few days since. After biting, the reptile kept fastening and coiling around the lad’s legs, and it was only torn from its coil by the brave […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1874
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 3, 1874. Â Â Â Â A well-disposed black snake joined the worshippers in a Petersburg [Va.] church, and finding the pews all full, took a seat on a rafter. But when, after the benediction, he came down to go out, there was dismay in the congregation. There need not have […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1857
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 3, 1857. Â Â Â Â A man named Wirsen, a swede, who has recently been exhibiting a number of rattlesnakes in various parts of California, and who fancied he had acquired a power over them which would prevent them from biting him, was severely bitten by one of them upon […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 28, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on December 28, 1922. Â Â Â Â At the Bruce Museum of Natural History at Greenwich, Conn., there is quite a collection of snakes, some of which were captured during the past summer upon country expeditions of patrons of the institution. One of these contributions, a garter snake, was […]