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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Dog-fishing.

     A singular practice of fishing is found amongst the Chones Indians. They train dogs to aid them in fishing and the dog helps them in much the same way as the shepherd’s dog helps the shepherd.      The net is held by two men standing in the water, and the dogs, swimming out far […]

Stories About Animals.

     A singular encounter between a dog and a donkey occurred recently in Blackpool, England. The dog rushed at the donkey as he was standing in a field, and fastened on his nose. The donkey shook him off, bit him about the head and shoulders, and tossed him wildly about. The dog again seized the […]

Five Killed by Wild Dogs.

     Reports from Labrador state that five persons were killed and eaten by savage dogs of that coast during the last winter. These dogs, which have largely interbred with wolves, have frequently killed people heretofore. One of the victims last winter was a man, aged thirty-five, and the others were an elderly man and his […]

More Mad Dog Scares About.

Zion City People Loose Geese, Calves, Dogs, and a Horse Result of Errant Rabid Canine. Bart Tyrrell Shoots Dog.      Either a case of more mad dogs or of the same errant one that caused the loss through rabies of cattle at Gurnee, Wadsworth, Russell, Yorkhouse and Zion City, people has suffered a mad dog […]

Two Men And Dogs Belting Globe.

     With the loud crack of the whip and a yelping of Siberian wolf hounds attached to what looked like an automobile, George F. Small, “Shorty for short,” a native of Ontario, Canada, and H. T. Boone, colored dog master and a native of Whalen, Siberia, drove into Waukegan before daylight Friday morning in the […]

Dog Snaps Nose Off Boy.

Neighbor’s Favorite Fox Terrier Bites Its Accustomed Playmate.      A dog leaped into the face of little Gerald Heyliger and snapped the end of his nose off when the child stooped to pet it in front of his home in Chicago. Gerald, who is 12 years old, with blood streaming from the end of his […]

Attacked by a Pack of Dogs.

     A Charlotte [N. C.] special of a recent date to the Chicago Inter Ocean says:      A very remarkable occurrence at Shoeheel, a small town between this city and Wilmington, has just stirred up the whole section of country contiguous thereto. Mr. William D. Baldwin, a highly respectable citizen, was returning, Saturday night, from […]

Rush Dog’s Victim To Chicago Hospital.

Louis Miller Taken To Chicago Wednesday Night-To Take Treatment.      Gurnee, Ill., Oct. 3.-Louis Miller, of Lamb’s Corners, was rushed to Chicago Wednesday night to take treatment at the Pasteur Institute.      Miller was badly bitten by a dog last Sunday. The dog was shot and his head was taken to Chicago for examination. The […]

Mad Dog Invades School.

     Minneapolis, July 18.-What to do in case a mad dog bursts into a room, was the unexpected problem the solution of which Dean J. F. Fowney demonstrated to his class in pedagogy at the state university summer school. He was engaged in pointing the pedagogical path to an interesting group of propective schoolmaams, when […]

Attack By Mad Dogs.

Family In West Virginia Has Fierce Fight. Man and Wife Save Chidren and Finally Kill Rabid Animals.      Attacked in their home by five mad dogs, Elmer S. Good and family, who live in Chester, W. Va., opposite East Liverpool, Ohio, came off victorious in a fight for their lives the other morning. The family […]