Published in the The Waukegan Daily-Sun on Friday, July 8, 1898
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on July 8, 1898. Â Â Â Â A coasting steamer was wrecked near Sydney, N. S. W. The captain tied life lines to some pigs which formed part of the cargo. These on being thrown over-board quickly swam ashore, taking the lines with them. Communication being thus established, every person on board […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894.     P. W. Schenck, a New York banker who has interests in Montana, told of a rancher buying 1,000 range horses in Fergus County, Montana, for $3 a head. He says that the man who bought them slaughtered them, after which he boiled the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 25, 1895
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on January 25, 1895. Â Â Â Â While passing through a hog lot the 5-year-old daughter of John Parham, of Homer, was attacked by the vicious animals and was thrown down to the ground. But for the timely arrival of her mother she would have been killed.
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 16, 1886
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 16, 1886. Â Â Â Â Of a train of hogs which arrived Friday at Kansas City, seven- carloads had been frozen to death.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, February 28, 1910
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 28, 1910. Thus Prevent Animals From Squealing In Alarm.     Aurora, Ill., Feb. 28-Chloroforming hogs is the unusual occupation followed by Frank Baker and Eugene Raymer, who, with Frank Licher and Earl and Archie Runkle, were given a preliminary hearing before Justice Vanosdal. Baker and […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 13, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on November 13, 1903. Makes Farmer Angry And He Shoots His Wife And Himself. Â Â Â Â Calvin E. Wade, a prominent farmer of Chenango County, N. Y.. shot and fatally wounded his wife and then killed himself. He had been vainly trying to drive a hog through […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Monday, March 6, 1916
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on March 6, 1916. Â Â Â Â In some parts of Mexico the wild hogs, which the natives call jaballs, are used as watchdogs. If they are caught young and brought up with goats they will go out into the hills with the herd and fight coyotes or other […]
Published in the The Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, September 2, 1862
Published in The Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois, on September 2, 1862. Â Â Â Â Turner, of the City Meat Market, while butchering a porker last week, received a severe bite in the thigh, which confines him to the house. This will account for his being unable at present to serve his customers from the wagon.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 1, 1900
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on June 1, 1900. J. A. Graybeal of Rosemond township tells of an interesting hog story. Some months ago a cyclone occured on his farm, which, among other damage done, blew over a straw stack, and at the same time two hogs mysteriously disappeared. He searched in […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, August 24, 1878
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on August 24, 1878. Â Â Â Â One of the most remarkable cases of instinct that was ever heard of came under our personal observation a few days ago. Mr. Deveaux, the county jailer, was presented with a small pig by a friend living about four miles from town, and it was […]