Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1904
Elgin Man Dies from Blow Received in Fight with a Neighbor. Â Â Â Â Fred Harchen is dead in St. Joseph’s hospital, Elgin, as the result of a blow on the head inflicked by Charles Clarkson in a dispute over some ducks which had wandered from the land of the latter upon that owned by the former. […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1904
Takes a Ten-Mile Dash Behind a Runaway Horse. Â Â Â Â Little Irving Potter, aged 13 months, survived a perilous ride of ten miles hehind a frightened horse, which turned the buggy in a twenty-foot ravine, completely covering the child with wreckage. Mr. Potter and his wife drove to Keller station and when, assisting his wife to […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 30, 1905
Long Trains of Palace Stock Cars Rushing from South to North. Â Â Â Â Not even the world’s fair nor convention, excursion trains take precedence over the long strings of palace stock cars rushing from south to north this month, that the largest shipment of Texas cattle in the history of the West may be deposited on […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 1, 1914
Henry Perry of Grayslake Was the Victim of Unusual Accident on Saturday. Rushed Here To Hospital. Is Given Large Doses of Antitentanic Serum to Prevent Getting Lock-Jaw. Â Â Â Â Henry “Mac” Perry, 37 years old, a well known resident of Grayslake, was attacked and painfully injured by a vicious stallion on Saturday. Had it not been […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 27, 1905
    Mrs. Benjamin J. Scholermann, wife of a New York jeweler, had a desperate fight with a setter dog at her residence in Greenwich, Conn. She was almost exhausted, when another dog, a pet bulldog came to her aid, and, jumping on the setter, turned his attention.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1905
    More than 2,000 persons and four passenger trains on the Colorado Midland railroad were held in tunnel No. 6, two miles west of Manitou, by a fierce South American Jaguar. Before he was captured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe gash across his right leg. Miss Delmont, a passenger […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 14, 1899
Frank Fisher, Keeper of Rajah, is the Animal’s Sixth Victim. Â Â Â Â Frank Fisher, keeper of the big elephant Rajah, was killed by his charge at the winter quarters of Lemen Bros. circus in Argentine, Kas. The keeper, becoming angry at the elephant, struck him fiercely with a “hook.” The huge beast promptly turned on him, […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
    The novel sight of an elephant suffering with a severe attack of the grip was seen at the winter quarters of a circus in Rockford. Queen Jumbo, the largest elephant now in captivity, and valued at $12,000, was taken sick and suffered most intense agony. Half a dozen times the beast was overcome with […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville. Illinois on Friday, May 6, 1904
Gasoline Torch Explodes and Destroys Camels, Elephants and Bears. Â Â Â Â A circus train arrived in Pawnee City, Neb., late the other night. Early the next morning one of the animal-keepers went through the elephant cars to see that all was right, when the gasoline torch which he carried exploded and the entire car was immediately […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 25, 1914
Rest is Broken Nights by Barking of Dogs at Night Who Are Hunting Rats. Must Exterminate One. Have About Decided That it Would be Most Satisfactory to Kill the Rodents. Â Â Â Â If all other means fail residents of Chestnut street may open a systematic campaign of extermination against the rodents who infest the ruins of […]