Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 18, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on July 18, 1922. A “Companion boy” who lived in Missouri, and who has been reading the paper since he was a little shaver, writes to tell us what he knows about the cannibalistic habits of snakes. As my brother and I were cocking hay in a […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 10, 1896
Punlished in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on January 10, 1896. A little Dakota girl who has a strange fondness for reptiles. Â Â Â Â The librarian on Congress recently received from an artist at Hot Springs, S. D., a photograph of Martha McIntyre, an 8-year-old child, who from her infancy has had rattlesnakes for pets. […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, January 17, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on January 17, 1922. Â Â Â Â In a combat between a diamond rattlesnake and a blue racer, the latter was victorious over his more virulent adversary. During the fight, reports a writer in Science, the racer was badly bitten by the rattler; whereupon the former worked his way […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Monday, December 23, 1901
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on December 23, 1901. Â Â Â Â Oakland, Neb., Dec. 23-L. Sanbloom, a farmer 88 years old, living a mile south of town, was found by his son lying helpless and unconscious in the hog yard with swine feeding on the flesh of his still warm living body. He is supposed […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 16, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on May 16, 1902. Â Â Â Â Jacob Roth, aged 67, one of the wealthiest farmers of Meigs Township, Ohio, met a horrible death. A savage boar which he was trying to separate from some other hogs, turned upon and gored him. He died in three minutes.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 15, 1900
Published in The Lake Count Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on June 15, 1900. County Recorder in Iowa Dismembered by Porcine Brutes. Â Â Â Â The body of former County Recorder J. P. Suttman of Grundy County was found in a hog pen at Grundy Center, badly mutilated by the swine. He had attempted to clean the pen, had […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 14, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on September 14, 1894. Â Â Â Â A frightful duel with knives was fought by two prominent farmers, Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy, near Polkville, Ky. Murphy’s hogs broke into Osborn’s cornfield, and this caused the trouble. The two cut and slashed each other in a frightful manner, and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, February 8, 1873
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on February 8, 1873. Â Â Â Â A lad of eight was killed and eaten by hogs, in Huntington county, Indiana, a short time since.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, February 21, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 21, 1922. Â Â Â Â A strange case of maternal devotion is reported by an Ontario farmer who has a sow with a litter that has adopted a half-grown kitten and permits it to nurse with her babies and to sleep with them. The kitten has been […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, September 17, 1897
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on September 17, 1897. Â Â Â Â A desperate fight between a horse and a boar, which resulted in the death of both animals, is reported from the county line eighteen miles north of Warsaw, Ind. The animals were on the farm of Arthur Munson and got together in a field, when […]