Saturday, August 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 5, 1898
Puss Meets With a New Kind of Creature and Has a Hard Time of It. Farmer Egerton has a large cat named Scrapper which has long been the terror of all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood. One day lately he met his match in a large turtle. Discovering the queer creature taking a […]
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 10, 1899
Big Elephant Wintering at Argentine Kan., Crushes Frank Fisher to Death. Kansas City, Mo., April 10.-“Rajah,” a mammoth elephant owned by Lemen Bros’. Circus company, which has been wintering in Argentine, Kan., near here, on Sunday killed its keeper, Frank Fisher. Fisher had returned to the tent intoxicated and tried to make the different animals […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Frank C. Bostock, manager of a Zoo, is Rescued from Death by a Woman. Frank C. Bostock, manager of the Hagenbeck zoo, which is wintering at Kansas City, Mo., was terribly bitten and lacerated by Brutus, the big lion which has already maimed several men. He was saved from being killed by the energetic action […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Dog Comes to the Rescue of Colorado Cow Herder in Nick of Time. A cow herder, Mike Sullivan, encountered a large gray wolf at Prospect lake, near Colorado Springs, Col., the other day while attending to his cattle. Armed only with a club, he pursued it a short distance, when it turned on him. He […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 6, 1898
Grasshoppers, Wasps, Etc., Driven Out by Forest Fires, Fly Over City of Wichita. Wichita, Kan., Oct.-Several hours before sunset Monday there began to arrive here, flying low over the city, a cloud of insects comprising grasshoppers, wasps, bald hornets, several varieties of butterflies and wild bees. They are drifting slowly with a light breeze toward […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 20, 1908
Chicago, Aug. 20.-Like the heroic Ursus, who wrestled with a bull in the arena, John Maffey clung to the horns of a maddened steer which had escaped from the stockyards while children and other pedestrians fled to safety. For fifteen minutes Maffey kept up his battle with the animal, and was about to fall exhausted […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 13, 1910
Infant Snatched From Mother’s Arms by Beast in Theater. Cleveland, Tenn., May 13.-A trained lion which was being exhibited on an open stage here suddenly snatched a baby from the arms of its mother, carried it to the back of the stage, dashed it to the floor and planted both forepaws on the little one’s […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 1, 1910
Rodent Nibbles at Bacon on Bruised Foot and Sinks Teeth in Toe. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 1.-Arther, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schofield, almost bled to death as a result of having been bitten on the toe by a rat. While playing about the yard the child stubbed his toe and the mother […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 23, 1910
Light-House Keeper Discovers Dog Watching Coat Last Night and Crowning Story Results. One of the light house keepers discovered a dog standing watch over a boys coat on the south pier last evening, and at first it was believed that there had been a drowning. The dog was taken to the police station and an […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 23, 1897
Kentucky Boy and His Brother Meet Horrible Death While Playing. Willie, aged seven, and Eddie, aged nine, sons of Matthew Cox, a farmer living near Mannsville, Taylor county, Ky., met terrible deaths from rattlesnake bites the other evening. They were playing hide and seek with some other children and Willie ran into the bushes and […]