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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Dog Saves Master From Death In Burning Flat Sun.

Waukegan, Jan. 4. Anton Skermon, who conducts a barber shop on Spring street, just north of the Edmund Hotel, owes his life to his pet dog who awakened him early Sunday morning just in the nick of time to escape death in a fire which had broken out in his flat just over his place […]

An Odd Way To Fish.

The natives of Tutulia, one of the islands of Oceania, have a peculiar method of catching fish. At a given signal all the inhabitants of the village assemble on the seashore to the number of 200 persons, each one carrying a branch of the cocoa palm. With these in their hands they plunge into the […]

Killed Thirty Chickens.

Thirty chickens belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Trepanier of 1024 Jackson street were killed by a dog last night according to a police report and the canine is being hunted down.

Bull Attacks An Auto Which Threw Its Lights Upon Him.

Enraged Animal Near Fox Lake Resents Appearance in the Herd. Kicks And Butts The Car. First Attack Throws Headlights Over Car-Second Is Butting of the Radiator. While driving through what is called “The big hollow” north of Volo one night recently, Fred Nader, a farmer of McHenry county, was the victim of an enraged bull […]

Curious Result Of Adder’s Bite.

As the result of an adder bite, recently, the back of the hand of a Cardiff [Wales] boy named J. W. Coffy has become marked like an adder. The physician who was attending the case states that the skin and swollen flesh near the bite are like a piece of leather, pigmented exactly the same […]

Mrs. Akeley Shot The two Largest Elephants.

Woman Related Here Did Remarkable Feat In Africa. Her Shot Brought Down Elephant Larger Than the Fabled Jumbo. Tale Told in Chicago. Mrs. Carl E. Akeley, wife of the chief taxidermist of the Field Museum and sister-in-law to T. E. Akeley of Third street, Waukegan, killed the biggest elephant ever bagged by an American and […]

Tame Fox; Is Trained.

C. H. Brantley Smashes Long Accepted Theory That Wolf Family Cannot Be Caught. Has A Fox Which Will Obey Like Dog. Will Lie Down, Jump Through a Hoop and do Other Things. It has always been considered that to tame a fox, a wolf or an animal of the wolf family, or a common cotton […]

Honor For A Champion Chicken.

Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 13.-A monument is planned for a chicken belonging to O. L. McCord of Vermillion county. It has just died, aged 12 years. It was to be the champion of champions, having won first prize at eight successive state fairs and also at the Pan-American exposition.

Many Horses Die In Chicago Blaze.

290 Animals on Second Floor Of Swift and Company Stables Meet Doom When Blast and Fire Come at Once. Chicago, Nov. 1.-More than 100 horses were killed and about fifty wagons destroyed by explosion, it is supposed, of a steam pipe running over the roof of Swift & Co.’s barn at the stockyards. There were […]

Horse’s Bite Proves Fatal.

Causes Death of Stock Dealer Two Days After Animal’s Attack. Marion, Ill., Oct. 31.-J. T. White, a stock dealer, is dead here as the result of a bite of a horse. He was feeding the animal last Wednesday when it attacked him, inflicting fatal wounds.