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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Mystery of a Dog.

  Animal spends several days in Well, People unable to Locate it.      The mystery of a dog’s bark and howl was solved this morning by Officer Adam Vogel and as a result the pet dog of the Osborne family is at home, probably eating to make up for what he lost during the past […]

All Meat for Paris Lane.

     A street sign that amazes American visitors in Paris reads: “Butchery of Horse, Ass and Mule a Specialty.”

Man And Beast In Combat; Man Wins By Twisting Brute’s Head From Body.

      Attacked by a monstrous tramp dog, streaming blood from four wounds inflicked by the cur’s teeth. Joe Kautenberg of Marion street this morning fought off the ferocious beast and finally twisted its head from its body, leaving the gory mess near the Forty Steps while he sought a physician to attend to his injuries. […]

A Dog Drives Team Alone.

Remarkable Spectacle Seen on Washington Street.      A remarkable spectacle was seen on Washington street near County last night at about 6:30, when a dog was observed to be driving a heavy work team along the street, evidently to the barn, sitting up straight in the front seat with the lines between his teeth, holding […]

Swallowed Six Inch Snake.

     Thomas Jefferies, member of the Rough Rider club of Cincinnati, who had been camping on the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg, Ind., got up in the night and took a drink from a spring near by. This was at 1 o’clock, and in a few minutes after he retired he awoke his companions with his groans. […]

Almost Eaten Up by Mosquitoes.

     Bridget Collins, eighty years old, who wondered from her home in the Bronx, New York city, was found in a swamp ten miles away half buried in mud and almost eaten alive by mosquitoes. Mounted Policeman Flynt was riding past the swamp when some boys called his attention to what appeared to be a […]

Train Stalled by Moths.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 07/15/1907.      Port Arthur, Ont., July 15.-The Lake Superior limited on the Canada Northern railway had a peculiar experience near Kashabowie, where a cloud of moths was encountered, obscuring the view and covering the tracks so deeply that the train was stalled. It took the train crew […]

Eagle Whips A man.

Then Resumes His Flight With a Stolen Lamb.  Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 04/17/1907.     Frederick Hollenbach, a farmer living on the Schoharie Ridge, near Saegersville, was feeding the gray squirrels in his woodland when an eagle flew past that had in its talons one of his lambs. The big bird had […]

Snakes.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 02/28/1907.      John Jeffers writes from Olustee, Okla., that they are having an unusually large crop of snakes in that country this year. John states that when driving across a quarter section near his home recently he had to stop three times and remove the reptiles from […]

Has Long Record of Slaughter.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 01/16/1906.      Although 53 years old Earl De Gray still ranks as the greatest game butcher in England, perhaps in the world. He has killed more game than any other living sportsman-amounting, when last computed-to 216,699 head. Comprised in this list were 11,900 pheasants, 89,400 partridges, 45,500 […]