Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 5, 1867
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois, on 10/05/1867. Â Â Â Â Mr. Barnum, of the N. Y. Museum, who has caged in his lecture-room, [which is Connecticut for theatre] most of the respectably bad actors in the country, has purchased a gorrilla at a reputed expense of $8,000, [in reality, probably about $800.] The Chicago Post […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 29, 1895
Gilbert Siddell, a farmer four miles east of Carlyle, was digging a well near his residence when a horse fell in on him. Siddell is seriously injured.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 24, 1902
A strange case of a horse taking revenge on a brutal driver is reported from Rennes, France. The horse was dragging a heavy load of bricks from a Kiln at Lormandiere to Rennes, and the carter hardly stopped flogging him all the way. On reaching Rennes the driver was unharnessing when the horse bolted down […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, June 6, 1907
Men in Chicago Went Back with Pick and Shovels for Burial only to find Animal Grazing-Arrives at Track. While the train sped on at the rate of fifty miles an hour, yesterday at Barrington an unmarked trotting horse of promise leaped away from two attendants and out of the open car door to the swirling […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 23, 1875
    On one occasion, Lent was a part owner of a travling circus and menagerie. One day he met a man out West who had a grizzly bear for sale. As the animal was a splendid specimen of a young grizzly, Lent purchased him, and after he got him he found himself in the position […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 14, 1922
                                          By International News Service     Bloomsburg, Pa., July 14-A black bear that weighed 350 pounds and a cow in a pasture on North Mountain battled half an hour in a terrific fight. The bear won. Then Willian Temple killed the bear. Temple, with a keen regard for the law, reported the fact he had […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 14, 1912
    Mount Carmel, Ill., Sept. 13.-Solomon Hinderliter and his twelve-year-old son are in critical condition as the result of an attack made upon them by a hog.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 23, 1901
Omaha Woman Severely Hurt in Fifth Attempt to Steal Her. Â Â Â Â A fifth attempt to kidnap Mrs. H. Glassman, wife of a well-known Omaha insurance agent, was thwarted the other night by the woman’s dog, a spaniel, which attacked her assailants and made so much noise that her husband was brought to the rescue. Mrs. […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 27, 1904
Gun Club Teams Contest in a Two-Days’ Campaign and the Losers Must Pay. Â Â Â Â Hunters in the vicinity of Elgin Monday night completed their annual slaughter of crows, butcher birds, hawks and other birds regarded both by farmers and the state laws as destructive to growing crops. When the heads of the deadfowls were brought […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1902
The Untimely Ending of a Crow Who Swallowed a Centiped. Â Â Â Â “Saw a curious thing in California last winter,” said the man who travels about. “I had stopped for a moment to chat with a man who was plowing when he called my attention to a large centiped that he had just plowed up. Â Â Â Â […]