Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 17, 1876
    Arthur Regan, eight years old, of Karns City, rode a horse into a creek of water. The horse stepped into a deep hole, when the boy fell off and would have been drowned had not the animal seized him by the back and carried him to the bank. The mark of the horse’s teeth […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 17, 1876
    This seems to be the time of year when snakes are most abundant. We learn from Mr. A. J. Hoffman, who lives in the north part of the county, that on the last Friday, as one of the hired men was going down a small gulch, he came upon a perfect nest of squirming […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 8, 1876
    The Pensacola [Fla.] Gazette of the 8th ult., has the following account of an exciting adventure: “Capt. John B. Guttman, of the Pensacola Guards, signalized himself in an odd encounter last Friday, and came out first best. Riding down to the shore of Escambia Bay, the Captain noticed a strange commotion in the water, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 26, 1876
Howe’s circus was showing at Indianola when the storm of the fourth came on, and because of injury to the railroads was compelled to remain there until the track was temporarily repaired. Then the circus started for their next place of exhibition. When about eight miles out one corner of a bridge gave way, and […]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 14, 1876
The Journal du Havre recounts a terrible encounter between the lion-tamer, Bidel, and a number of wild beasts. Bidel’s custom was to go into the cage of these ferocious animals accompanied by a sheep, which was by his presence kept safe from attack. On a recent occasion he proceeded to the lion’s cage, and his […]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 25, 1876
The Havana Journal says: We recently heard of a good joke perpetrated by a Chemung county farmer, a member of the Elmira Farmers’ Club. He had been bothered greatly by hunters from the city, who had entered his woods with a perfect abandon and slaughtered the squirrels in great numbers. One day he procured two […]
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1876
The police at the foot of Hammond street, New York city, recently rescued a horse from the water, concerning which there is a remarkable history. Nobody at first knew anything of the animal or its owner, but the next day a claimant appeared who stated that he was the owner, and that the horse had […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 24, 1902
[Copyright, 1902. by C. B. Lewis.] Colonel Ryder, stationed at Bangalore, India, missed from his effects a valuable ruby. The only person who could have taken it was his body servant, who had served him faithfully and honestly for many years. The man protested his innocence, but the colonel ordered him flogged. The accused was […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 1, 1872
From the Detroit Free Press, July 29. Captain maddock, living on Rivard street, while Captain of the schooner D. L. Couch, four years ago, and then living at New Baltimore, took with him on a trip to Buffalo a Newfoundland dog named “Neptune.” Lying alongside another vessel one night at Buffalo his dog was stolen. […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, August 3, 1870
From the Columbus {Ohio] News. A farmer was living on the west side of the river, in walking about his place, discovered a nest of rattlesnakes in an old log about which several large pieces of rock lay scattered. Our friend had heard that hogs were death on snakes of all sorts, and not caring […]