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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Attacked By Wolves.

  St. Cloud Minn. Journal      About 10 o’clock last Saturday night, as Mr. Miner, of the town of Laugola, Benton County, was driving from his own house to Mr. Morrill’s, having with him his wife and three children, he was attacked by five large timber wolves. The fiece beasts sprang at his horses, and […]

A Pet Wolf’s Freaks.

     A remarkable wolf-story is that told by Mr. Christ Pahl, of Buffalo Township. He brought a wolf’s skull into the country Auditor’s office, and said he had prepared it for the zoological cabinet in the Academy. He stated that the wolf was captured when a cub, had been raised at his house with a […]

A Tale Of Two Skulls.

  Virginia City Enterprise.      A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a friend in this city, tells of a horrible reminder of the fearful snow storms of last winter, and of the perils of those who were caught out and lost their way on the plains. He says that recently, while he and […]

Lost On The Plains.

  A Child Eighteen Hours Among Snapping And Growling Wolves.      On Saturday evening last. Platteville, Col., was startled by the report that a little girl aged about 9 years, a twin-daughter of a Mr. Suthorland, who recently moved into the neighborhood, was lost on the plains. It appears that the child accompanied her father […]

Snake Saved The Train.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 02/11/1898.      Flagman A. J. Woods, stationed at Forsythe Junction, had a desperate encounter with a huge rattlesnake one night recently. Attracted by the flare of the watchman’s lantern, which was stationed upon the platform, the snake had crawled up and wound its large body around it. The […]

A Woman Kills Twelve Wolves.

       We are indebted to Ephraim Brown, Esq., for the particulars of a fight which occured recently at Bridge Creek, between Mrs. T. C. Higgins and about a dozen wolves: Early in the evening, Mrs. Higgins heard an unusual noise at the calf-pen as if a dozen wolves were contemplating an attack upon the […]

Wolves In Hungary.

       Numerous cases of depredations by wolves have recently occured in Hungary. A band of these animals passed threw one of the suburbs of Tomesvar, destroying any animal which was not housed. A clergyman who was returning home in a sledge from a neighboring town was beset by a pack of wolves. He bade the […]

Devoured By A Wolf.

       A little girl shut up as punishment for some fault in her father’s barn at Baud [Morbihun] in France, was killed by a wolf, which by climbing a rubbish heap, was able to enter by the roof. The family had been at work in the fields at some distance, and on the father […]

Wolves In Russia

       In the district of Waldat, Russia, wolves are making great ravages this year, and it is feared that the losses of the peasants will surpass those of 1878. The bill of slaughter for this year alone in the above district includes 276 horses, 851 colts, 1,653 sheep, 237 cows, 740 calves, and 295 […]

Boy Fights Hungry Wolf.

       After a fight with a wolf driven by the pangs of hunger within the city limits of Galesburg, Fred Meadows, aged 14 years, succeeded in killing the animal with a 22-caliber rifle and his dog. The boy was hunting sparrows. The wolf came out of a cornfield and made for the lad with […]