Published in the Waukegan News Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 27, 1934
Pet Monkey Is Captured After Upsetting Quiet Lives Of Mike Shelly And Neighbors. After two days and two nights of terror for the household as well as the stock, all today was serene at the Mike Shelly farm near Wadsworth due to the absence of “Dynamite,” a pet monkey that was captured there last night. […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 11, 1850
The folly of playing all manner of strange pranks with lions and tigers has just been illustrated at Chatham, where a young woman, Ellen Bright, accustomed to enter one of the dens of Wombell’s traveling menagerie, and there exhibit to an audience, gaping with astonishment, her tricks with a lion and a tiger confined together, […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 30, 1850
Any body who has heard Rory O’Mory’s famous story of the fox, in Lover’s amusing play of that name, will confess that it is not quite equal to the following, which we get from the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, a Vermont paper: Last week in the town of Newbury, a fox hunter, with two hounds, got […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1850
Escape from sudden death. A few weeks ago a wealthy gentleman from St. Louis, whose life had been miserable by a live tapeworm in his stomach and bowels, visited this city for the purpose of consulting our most distinguished physicians. By the advice of a friend he placed himself in the hands of Dr. Aaron […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, March 21, 1850
A dreadful tragedy occurred at Wellesley, La., on the 23d ult. The collector of taxes was compelled to leave his wife and young family alone, over night, while absent on business. The lady knowing that there was considerable money in the house, sent for some of the family of a neighboring blacksmith to stay at […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 29, 1850
Our Savannah and Charleston exchanges furnish detailed accounts of his snakeship, as seen in Broad river, near Beaufort. The steamer ran within thirty feet of it when it sunk. It was described as being from 125 to 150 feet in length, and portions above the water appeared to be from eight to ten feet across. […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, March 8, 1850
Hogs have again commenced their depredations upon the side-walks-turning up brick after brick either for amusement or something to eat. It is suggested, in order to protect individual property, that refreshments be furnished hogs at the expense of the city treasury, and that the city fathers provide some way to amuse them other than passing […]
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 14, 1850
We are informed by Mr. George F. Hunt, the other day, that about two weeks since, one of his Negro men, while at work on what is known as his “Orchard Place,” was attacked by a large panther. The boy fortunately saw him in time to send off a number of women and children who […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, January 28, 1850
At the battle of Ourtal, of the French and Algerians, 3,000 camels and 15,000 sheep were captured.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850
A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]