Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 14, 1921
     Dewey Anderson, well known young Waukegan nimrod Friday learned that it is easier to evade a peeved ram by climbing a tree than playing leap frog with it. He had just shot a rabbit at Antiock and went to pick it up when a large ram abruptly appeared and its disposition caused him to […]
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 25, 1897
Mexico’s Wild Hogs, or Peccary, Run From Nothing Under the Sun. Â Â Â Â The most vicious and fearless of the brute creation is the peccary or wild hog of Mexico. This animal seems utterly devoid of the emotion of fear. I have never seen it turn a hair’s breadth out of its path for any living […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Monday, March 28, 1898
     George Griesbaum, a farmer near Mascoutah, was attacked by a vicious hog at his home, and sustained injuries that caused his death a short time later. He was 70 years of age, and had resided in the vicinity for half a century.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 24, 1908
    Mattoon, Ill., Sept.-As the result of a family feud, which had been running for twelve years, “Couch” Harwood shot and probably fatally wounded his brother Jeff Harwood, during a quarrel over some hogs at the home of the former, southeast of this city. The would-be murderer was placed in jail in default of $5,000 […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 24, 1899
Nervy Illinoisan Submits to the Knife Without an Anacathetic. Â Â Â Â Wallrath Mochle, a Belleville blacksmith, has lost his right leg as the result, primarily, of a hog bite three years ago. Moehle is 55 years old. Three years ago while hunting he crossed a field and as he was climbing over a fence in the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1901
An Intelligent, Large-Limbed and a Fleet-Footed Animal. Â Â Â Â The “Florida razorback” is the hog indigenous to this climate and soil. He is usually large and fleet of foot, being the only known porker that can outrun a darky. He has a tail of wondrous length, which, while he is in active motion, he twists into […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 30, 1913
    Adrian, Mich., June 30.-Doctors fear inturnal injuries may have been sustained by Alvin Porter, of Ogden, when a bull attacked him in the field and trampled upon him. Three ribs were crushed in. Portor went to disentangle the animal from a wire fence.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 29, 1909
The Queer Pet That Was Adopted by a Regiment. Â Â Â Â Perhaps the strangest pet that ever attracted a regiment’s fancy was a pig. She attached herself to a Kentucky regiment on the way to invade Canada during the war of 1812. Â Â Â Â As the men marched out from Harrodsburg one morning they came across two […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 12, 1897
    A large catamount entered a barnyard belonging to D. J. Parish, one mile north of Baldwin, Fla., recently, and in attempting to catch a pig was killed outright by the mother hog. This seems incredible, but it is the truth, nevertheless. The razerback proved to be somewhat of a razor front to the ferocious […]
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, February 4, 1862
    The feeding of soldiers on pork seems to have a philosophy in it. It is the meat of the best tactician among brute animals. Sillman’s Journal gives the following curious illustration of this:     A gentleman while travling some years ago, through the wilds of Vermont, perceived at a little distance before him a […]