Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 12, 1915
Fourteen Dead Horses Lie on the Ground near Railroad Tracks at Beach. Investigation Demanded. Man Said to Buy Horses for Their Hides and Leaves the Carcasses on Ground. Â Â Â Â The presence of the carcasses of fourteen dead horses on a knoll beside the Chicago and Northwestern railroad tracks just north of the Beach station and […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 1, 1914
    Joe Atkinson of Roundout Vicinity Has Frightful Experience With Animal Which Previously Had Always Been Gentle-Two Farm Hands Rush To Aid Of Employer But The Bull Keeps On Goring And Pawing Him About The Yard-Collie Rushes To Rescue, And, With Bites And Barks, Detracts Bull’s Attention While Workmen Rescue Him.     With two hired […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 17, 1915
Local People Are Acting on the Suggestion of City Physician Dr. Foley. Many Swatters Are Used. Scores of People Are Getting After the Places Where the Flies Are Breeding. Â Â Â Â This is “Fly Swatting” week and from all accounts the pests are suffering heavy losses at the hands of Waukegan people. Â Â Â Â Before leaving today […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 22, 1865
    A traveler gives the following anecdote of a tiger kept at the British Residency at Calcutta; “But what annoyed him far more than our poking him with a stick, or tantalizing him with shins of beef or legs of mutton, was a mouse introduced into his cage. No fine lady ever exhibited more terror […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1902
   At the zoological gardens at Perth, Western Australia, there recently took place a fearful battle between a lioness and a tiger. An eyewitness says the scene was terrifying.     Seizing the lioness by the throat, the tiger’s teeth tore threw the flesh, severing the windpipe and lacerating the neck frightfully. He dragged her round the cage […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 6, 1875
A Leopard Kills a Black Panther and Partially Devours It. Â Â Â Â Two lions, two leopards, and a black panther have for some months been kept in one cage in Barnum’s Hippodrome. The lions are separated from their companions through the night by iron bars, but in the day time the bars are withdrawn, and the […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1899
    Plucky Act of Miss Myrtle McAteer at Pittsburg, Pa.     Miss Myrtle McAteer, the tennis player, choked a mad dog to death. The dog was bounding along the street and everyone was making way for it as Miss McAteer came out of the gate at her home at West and Hill streets, Pittsburg. Instead […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1905
F. N. Jenkins of Lincoln, Neb., bathed his dogs in gasoline in the cellar of his house to kill fleas. Later he approached them with a lantern and an explosion followed which wrecked the house. Two may die.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1904
    William B. Sullivan was killed in Marengo by being thrown against a telephone pole when his horses were running away. He was the father of nineteen children, seventeen of whom are living. He was 57 years old.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 13, 1910
Victim of Thugs Thrown into River-Battles Rodents Three Hours. Â Â Â Â New York, Aug. 13.-Robbed of $400 and his watch by a gang of thugs, John Maughan, an elderly and well-to-do resident of Harlem, was beaten and thrown bodily into the North river by his assailants. Â Â Â Â He clung for three hours to the cross-beams under […]