Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 20, 1909
     Simon Helms, farmer, near Elkinsville, fourteen miles south of here, battled for almost an hour with a pack of wolves, which killed several sheep, raided a chicken coop and drove Helms family into the house after they had been severely injured by the enraged animals, which were finally driven off.     Last winter […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 30, 1877
     Washington, D. C., June 29,-The investigation into the losses of sheep during the past year shows a total of nearly 3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by dogs and wolves and various diseases and the aggregate money value of nearly $8,000,000. The average percentage of loss was nearly 8 percent. The proportion is […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, July 24, 1877
 New York Evening Post     Strange as it may seem, the emancipation of the serfs in Russia has increased the number of wolves in that country. The serfs used to act as their masters drivers in the great wolf- hunts which formed a national pastime; but since the liberation the wolf-hunt has gradually become […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, October 31, 1874
     A child was recently killed by a wolf at LaRochette, France. A girl named Marie Favand, aged 10, was on the border of a wood picking up acorns, when the animal suddenly appeared, and seizing her by the neck, crushed her head between its jaws. On her crying out a workman named Texier […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 2, 1875
 The Latest Hydrophobia Horror Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune     Lincoln Neb., July 1-Reports from the buffalo lands, in the western part of the state, report numerous wolves suffering from hydrophobia, making it dangerous for hunters. A young man named Ackerly, while sleeping on the prairie recently, was bitten on the nose by […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, April 9, 1877
     Three young girls were minding a flock of sheep a few weeks ago at Vergt [Doudognel], when a large wolf suddenly appeared, and, separating some of the sheep, drove them before it. The cries of the girls irritated it, and passing near one of them, Marie S., it flew at her, knocked her […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, September 12, 1876
 London Daily News     Russia is still a good deal behind the rest of Europe in the matter of wolves. These animals, whose heads used to be a source of income to the borders of Wales, and of which the last were slain in Scotland by Cameron of Lochiel, make a considable figure in […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 13, 1881
 A Wisconsin Farmer Kills Seven Wolves After A Terrible Struggle.     Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.     Waupaca, Wis., Aug. 12,-Report comes from the town of Dayton of a terrible encounter of a man with seven wolves. He is a farmer, and owns a large herd of sheep. He went out to drive […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, March 27, 1872
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 03/27/1872. Â Â Â Â An Arkansas paper says that in Lawrence County, as some persons were clearing some land, they set fire to a large oak log lying on the ground, when they noticed a rattlesnake crawling out from the log. They turned it over, when they discovered a den […]
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. Lion named Roosevelt Fatally Wounded At Springfield Carnival. Â Â Â Â A desperate battle among a cage full of lions and tigers was an unexpected feature of the animal show given in connection with the Gaskill Munday Carnival Company’s shows in Springfield. After a terrible fight, witnessed […]