Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1880
    One of the most sickening affairs, if, indeed, it is not the most horrible, which it has ever been our duty to chronicle, happened last Saturday on the premises of Mr. Solon Kelly, about eight miles from Huntsville. There was a hog-killing in progress, and two colored men, Robert and Dennis Patrick, got into […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1912
    The geese which play an important role in a certain opera recently presented in Milan, Italy, have been so noisy of late during rehearsals, drowning the voices of the singers, that a veterinary surgeon was consulted the other day, and he overcame the difficulty by inserting in the bill of each goose a chloroformed […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 10, 1912
Lives Under Ruins of Alabama Church for More Than 100 Days. Â Â Â Â Mobile, Ala., June 10.-Pinned under the ruins of a church near Evergreen, Ala., which had blown down on Feb. 21, a hog was found alive and, while weakened from the long imprisonment, was able to eat and drink. Â Â Â Â The animal was over […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 6, 1912
    Planfield, Ill., June 6.-A batted ball that gave the batter a home run was found to have killed a rabbit during a game at Plainfield. An outfielder found the dead rabbit lying beside the ball.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
    A man down in Massachusetts found a blacksnake frozen in the snow. He took the snake up carefully so that it would not break-it was stiff as the rod of Moses in the original form-and took it home and put it by the fire. And it thawed out. It wriggled around in the heat […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
Frightened Animals Push Rear Seat on Driver’s Head, Injuring Him. Â Â Â Â Upper Sandusky, O., April 22.-A singular accident happened here. William Leverich was about to hitch a team on Main street when an automobile driven by David Rall grazed the animals flank. Rall slowed down to see if the horses had been injured and the […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1912
Leaves Michigan Home on Skis-Parts of Her Clothing Are Found. Â Â Â Â Hancock, Mich., March 16.-Mrs. Selma Makkinen, wife of a Finnish farmer living near Alston, is believed to have been killed and eaten by wolves. Â Â Â Â Shortly before dark she set out on skis for a neighboring farm. She failed to return amd searchers found […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 4, 1912
Thirty Fall Twenty-five feet from Wrecked Cars. Four are killed and the Rest Run Through Chicago Streets, Creating a Wild Panic. Â Â Â Â Chicago, March 4-Thirty head of maddened cattle, freed from cars in a train wreck, stampeded at East Forty-first street and Cottage Grove avenue and terrorized the neighborhood for blocks in every direction. Â Â Â Â […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 17, 1912
Team Buried Under Heavy Fall of Ice and Snow in Chicago. Â Â Â Â Chicago, Feb. 17.-Two horses were killed when 500 pounds of ice and snow slid from the roof of a six-story building at 440 Jefferson street. Â Â Â Â The team was owned by J. Torenta. He left the horses attached to his wagon at the […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, February 15, 1912
    According to advices from the Caucasus millions of singing birds which every winter used to find a warm retreat on the southern slopes of the forest clad mountains of the Caucasus have suddenly been surprised by the intense cold and severe snowstorms while they were on their way from the north.     The slides […]