Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 6, 1897
Sticks His Knife Into a Horse James Keating, of Chicago, tried to carve his initials on a horse’s hip with a knife and when the police arrived he and his companion, Michael Hinckey, were in the hands of a mob of 500 men and boys who were trying to stamp the pair to death with […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Thursday, October 23, 1817
    In page 204 vol. 111. [Memoirs of doctor Lettsom] the following curious relation is given by Bishop Madison.     In a town, this fall, among the mountains of our country, near to the place where I happened to be, a boy of 12 or 13 years of age, was bit on the side of […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, August 14, 1816
Lumberton, N. C. June 18. Extraordinary and Shocking occurence. Â Â Â Â On Friday afternoon, the 7th inst. Mrs. Ratley was riding across the Gum Swamp, [about 1 miles from this place] where the water is but little more than knee deep, the boat on which she rode was attacked by an Alligator, and in the struggle, […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, February 3, 1819
On Friday the 4th instant, about 700 men of the neighboring townships, formed a hunting party. The signal for proceeding was given on Frenchtown Mountain, which was answered by all the horns of the hunters, comprising a circuit of 40 miles, in the space of 15 minutes. The hunters then progressed towards a centre in […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1901
Rat Catchers That Are Paid by the Government.     Several years ago a letter containing a large sum of money disappeared, from the New York post office, writes Hugh Netherton, in Ladies Home Journal, in telling of “Cats That Draw Salaries.” A month after the disappearance a desk in one of the rooms was moved, […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 15, 1876
    Mr. John K. Markill, of Norfolk, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. returned home late, having been detained by a storm, and going out some time after to care for his team, was just in the act of opening his stable door when he was seized from behind by a panther, which attempted to grapple […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 22, 1862
    We learn that a number of gentlemen are about purchasing Ball Mountain, Vermont, with a view of trying the experiment in domesticating the moose. The entire base of the mountain is to be enclosed by a high fence. The object is to make the moose serviceable in driving singly or by pairs.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1899
    Locked in an iron cage, Mille Morrelli fought with an enraged leopard at the Philadelphia exposition grounds. The little French women conquered, but now lies in the University hospital with severe wounds in her left arm and breast.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922
By International News Service Arvada, Wyo., Nov. 3-Becoming provoked at an unmanageable gun, N. P. Brown, member of the Sherdan City Fire Department, is credited with “bull-dogging” a buck deer in real Western style. Brown cornered the animal in a draw along Powder River, where he was hunting, and succeeded in grasping the antlers of […]
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1874
    A story is told of a lion which was brought from India, and who on the passage grew very fond of a sailor who had charge of him. His name was “Nero.” On being shut up in a cage in London, he grew sulky, and was very fiece when any one came near him, […]