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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Eagle.

Sunday, June 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 17, 1880

     A strange and nearly fatal fight between a child and an eagle took place in Pearson County, N. C. The three-year-old child of Mr. Wm. Murry was sitting on a stile feeding chickens when a large eagle swooped down at the chickens, scattering them in all directions. As the child was moving off the […]

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Race-Horse.

Sunday, June 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, April 29, 1880

     A Race-Horse ran against a post at the Upper Sandusky [O.] track the other day, tearing a hole in his side from which his entrails protruded. He ran fifty rods in this condition, and was finally overtaken and shot.

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Dogs.

Sunday, June 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 22, 1880

     Near the village of Dubno, province of Vladimir, Russia, a number of dogs attacked a woman and tore her to pieces. A peasant happened to see the woman struggling with the infuriated dogs, and who tried to save her, was nearly killed himself. He was rescued by the combined efforts of seven peasants. These […]

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