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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Gorrilla.

Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois, on 10/05/1867.      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 […]

Horse.

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.

A Horse’s Revenge.

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 […]

Horse Jumped From Fast Going Train.

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 […]

Bossing the Cage.

     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 […]

Black Bear Whips Cow in a Terrific Battle.

                                           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 […]

Two Attacked by Hog.

     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.

Dog Saves Kidnapped Mistress.

Omaha Woman Severely Hurt in Fifth Attempt to Steal Her.      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. […]

Elgin Annual Crow Hunt.

Gun Club Teams Contest in a Two-Days’ Campaign and the Losers Must Pay.      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 […]

A Fatal Meal.

The Untimely Ending of a Crow Who Swallowed a Centiped.      “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.      […]