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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Boy Caged With Animals.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 26, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 06/26/1903. Stolen Child Tells of Terrible Treatment by Showmen.      Kidnapped by circus hands, John Layton, a 6-year-old boy, told the police at East St. Louis that his clothes had been taken from him, that his face and hands had been discolored as a disguise, and […]

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Big Hailstones Kill Cows.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 26, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/26/1903.      A hailstorm covering a strip of land a mile and a quarter in width passed over eastern Allen County, Ind., for a distance of three miles and covering New Haven. In places the hail fell to a depth of two inches and crops are […]

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Sheep Killed By Blizzard.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 29, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 05/29/1903. 1,500,000 Lost in State of Montana Since Last December.      Statistics compiled by President T. C. Power, of the Montana board of sheep commissioners fixes the total number of sheep lost in the recent blizzard at 900,000. Up to the time of the storm 600,000 […]

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Two Condemned To Death.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 22, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/22/1903. Murderers Who Threw Victim’s Body To Hogs Are Sentenced.      Jerry Graves and “Cal” Prince, charged with the murder of Mrs. Nellie Reicheldorfer on the 16th of March last, were found guilty by the jury at Marion, after less than an hour’s deliberation. The death […]

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Twelve Die In Bull Fight.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 22, 1903

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/22/1903.      A special dispatch from Madrid announces that in a bull fight at Algeciras the amphitheater collapsed and twelve persons were killed and fifty injured. Several women and children were gored by the bulls.

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