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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Parade Crowd in Panic, Sees Girl Battle 2 Tigers

Beats fights as Barnes Circus wagon tilts dangerously; one animal was shot Many women fainted The parade of the Al Barnes circus which was in Waukegan last week, was passing through North Lake street, a residential thoroughfare in Aurora, yesterday.  In one compartment of a gilded cage sat Miss Mabel Stark with a Bengal tiger. […]

Lions Furnish Good Steak

Lion flesh is said to be very good eating, but tiger is tough and sinewy.  Nevertheless, the latter is eaten in India as there is a superstition that it imparts strength and cunning to the eater.

Dog Saves Many From Fire.

Arouses Proprietor of Hotel When Flames Attack Building.      Marinette, Wic., Jan. 27.-A dog in the household of Hugh Bahlert, hotel mar at Pound, this county, saved the place from destruction by fire and undoubtedly saved the lives of guests who were sleeping. The dog came to his master’s door and barked until Bahlert arose […]

Has Best Fighting Hen In Whole U. S. A., Says Smith.

Dr. O. N. Smith of This City has Hen That Can Whip any Rooster, He Declares. Will Make Wager On It. States That He Will Bet any Amount That Hen Will Score Victory Over Rooster.      Dr. O. N. Smith of Waukegan, the well known veterinarian is generally known as being level headed. His cranium […]

Man Had Close Call As Wheels Run Over His Head.

Lawrence Princ of the Phil Sheridan Farm Sustained Painful Injuries Today. Clothes Caught In Shaft. Horse Became Frightened and Driver of the Milk Wagon Was Thrown Under it.      Lawrence Princ, who with his brother has been running the Phil Sheridan farm on Milwaukee road, west of Eighteenth street, North Chicago, but who has been […]

Richmond Man Chewed to Death by a Mad Boar.

Terrible Tragedy Ten Miles From Antioch When Wm. Hennie is Victim of a Hog. Animal is Finally Shot. Hired Man Unable to Save Employer, Finally Sends Bullet into Its Heart.      Can you imagine a 32-year-old man being killed, being chewed to death by a hog, within 30 miles of Waukegan? Here’s a story which […]

St. Antonio and His Pig.

     Our Naples correspondent writes: “The other day, at the village of Piscinnola, a singular race took place, customary on the occasion of the annual feast of the patron saint-St. Antonio. At two p. m. the picture of the saint, with his inseparable pig, was affixed to the door of the parish church, and all […]

Encounter with a Panther in the Water

The Olympia Courier of November 25th relates this: While a party were engaged in catching salmon in North Bay, on Saturday last, an enormous panther was discovered in their vicinity, leisurely swimming across from an island to the main land.  The party were destitute of any implement wherewith to deal summarily with him, yet the […]

Lightning Bolt Slays Three: Men Were Load of Hay Hurrying to Shelter of Barn During Storm When Bolt From Blue Struck

Albany, NY., Aug 5. — A single bolt of lightning at Grooms Corners killed instantly three men who were hurrying to the barn with a load of hay from a field on the Lockrow farm.  The men were Spencer Lockrow, 30, son of the owner of the farm, and two laborers, Simon Watson and Andrew […]

Circus Rider is Thrown Into a Cage of Lions

International News Service.  Paris, July 13. — Louis Juge made each night “the Circuit of Death.”  Which is to say he rode a bicycle around the edge of a cage in which were pacing several mature and ferocious looking lions.  Small boys voted it the best stunt in the circus. Opening night of the Paris […]