Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 29, 1898
About three O’clock Sunday afternoon people passing down Genesee street near Wheeler’s book store were terrified to see a little fellow knocked down by a horse and trampled on, the horse steeping on his head and arm. Passersby were even more surprised to see him get up and run away as if unhurt after he […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1899
Woman Who Can Subdue the King of Beasts, Is Divorced from a Browbeating Husband. Kansas City, Mo., April 15.-Charlotte Wilhelmina Gertrude Bishop, otherwise known as Mme. Piancka, the lion tamer, appeared in the divorce court here Friday and was legally separated from her husband, H. H. Bishop, a resident of New York. Mme. Piancka, who […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 17, 1899
Kankakee, Ill., Jan. 17.-Twenty-eight head of cattle and 18 horses were burned Sunday night with the barn of T. J. Clark, two miles west of here. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 2, 1898
An Instance Which Shows That Dumb Beasts Can Be as Kind as Men. A herd of wild Asian buffaloes will charge any foe, even a tiger, to save the life of one of their number who has been wounded. Elephants, baboons and other animals will do the same in a wild state. On the other […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 24, 1898
They Are Increasing So Rapidly in Brooklyn’s Greenwood That a Trapper May Be Called In. Greenwood cemetery is suffering for the second time in its history from too great increase in its colony of chipmunks. Eighteen years ago they became such a nuisance that a trapper was employed, and 28,000 small, stripped pelts were the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 25, 1910
Italian Hunter Pursued by Sixteen Rattlesnakes is Bitten by One in Finger and Acts as Own Surgeon. Newburgh, N. Y., Oct. 24.- Arthur J. Sarventi, a well-to-do cigar dealer of this place, went to Pike county, Pennsylvania, last week in quest of deer. One day, a short distance from Eldred, while following some deer, he […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 8, 1890
Roscoe Franklin of Brockton, Mass., owns a bay horse, known by the name of Shiloh, that is possessed of a peculiar accomplishment. Mr. Franklin’s stable, a rather old building, is infested by rats that give the horses much trouble, stealing their food and making themselves pests generally. It began to be observed a short time […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 8, 1890
The two lines were facing one another, with only a short distance separating them. A farmer rode into the Confederate camp on a mule. Most of the soldiers had been farmers and were good judges of horseflesh, so that in conversation with the old farmer the merits and demerits of the mule came up naturally […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 8, 1885
Port Jarvis, [N.Y.] Gazette: “I never lie about snakes,” Warren replied. Do you remember that about three years ago a collision occurred on the Delaware division to a train carrying O’Brien’s circus and menagerie, and that the snake cage was demolished, and two or three snakes escaped in the darkness. Well, one of these snakes […]
Published in the Chicag Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, March 15, 1885
Thirty-five Years Underground-Brought to the Surface, He Seeks Death. Coalbrook [Pa.] Letter to New York Sun: Three years ago a mule known as “Old Barney,” having spent thirty-five successive years in drawing coal cars in the tunnels of Old Hickory Colliery, was taken out of the mine by his owner and turned out to do […]