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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Are Children Ever Nursed by Wolves?

       The Rev. Dr. Ellinwood, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in a letter from Cawnpore, India, to the New York Evangelist, has the following paragraphs:      Our interest was greatly excited at the Secundra Orphanage by one inmate, known as the”Wolf Boy.” Within ten years two boys, said to have been […]

The Northwest, Buffalo

       Kansas      One hundred and twenty Englishmen will go to Kansas on a buffalo hunt next month. Buffalo Bill will have them in his charge.      Wisconsin      It is estimated that at least 1,000 sheep have been killed in Northwestern Wisconsin this season by wolves.

Two East-Indian Wonders.

  The Tomb of King Akbar, and the “Wolf Boy.” Arra [India] Correspondence Frey Times.      Here we saw among the inmates [Arra, India] a person known as “the wolf boy.” He is now about 20 years old. “The wolf boy” was taken away from a wolf-captured in a wolf’s den at Bulandshabar, about 80 […]

Wolves In France.

       Some parts of France are still infested by wolves. An exchange says: “Every now and then in Franch journals there are paragraphs inserted telling of wolves not only killing stock, but attacking people, and French sporting prints abounds with such wolfish items. A recent report on wolves issued by the French authorities estimates […]

A Pretty Tight Place.

  How John Gunn Escaped From a Pack of Wolves. Ottawa [Can.] Free Press.      Being a culler in the employ of Mc Laren and Co., on the Gatineau River, I set out on the morning of the 29th of February, in company with the Indians, to ascertain if any trespasses had been committed on […]

General News, Wolves.

       A. H. Smith, of Coleman County, Tex., is a mighty Nimrod in his particular line, which is wolves. He kills the animals by seasoning the dead cattle on the praies with strychnine,-a condiment of which the wolf is remarkably fond. He thus makes a nine-strike every time; at least we judge so from […]

The Northwest, Wolves.

  Minnesota      A Norwegian, 70 years old, at White Bear Lake, had a fight with a big wolf, the most extraordinary fight on record. The varmint tackled him, and he fought, first with a club, then with a pitchfork, and finally he got a rope round the neck of the beast and therewith drew […]

The Northwest, Wolves.

  Iowa      The other evening [says the Adair County Register], Scott Ewing was riding up Wolf Hollow, when a wolf sprang toward him. Scott faced about and made tracks for home as fast as his pony could carry him, hotly pursued by the wolf for some distance. Finding that the wolf could make better […]

The Northwest, Wolves.

  Missouri      Holt McClarney, an old backwoodsman, of Steelville, recently killed eight wolves on Sunday morning before church, and received $40 bounty for their scalps.

Nurtured By She-Wolf.

  Incident of Romans Repeated by Wild Animal Near St. Paul.      From Ewing, thirty miles from here, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, comes a story so strange and startling that it has attracted much attention, and steps have been taken to either prove or disaprove it, for it is true a new fact […]