Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 15, 1897
Whiskers, Well Known Among the Chicago Sailors, Is No More. There is gloom among the river men at Chicago. “Whiskers,” the steamboat dog familiar to every sailor who enters the harbor, is dead. Through an inadvertency he was shut up in the pilothouse of the tug Monitor Friday night and was suffocated. Whiskers was known […]
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 23, 1897
Crawls into Her Throat After Meat When She is Masticating it. A case that is exciting much interest among medical men in Dubuque, Ia., is that of a deaf and dumb girl named Clara Kunts, who is the unfortunate possessed of a live lizard in her stomach. The girl can feel it running up and […]
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 12, 1897
The little English sparrows are the gamest birds that live. They have driven the bluebirds, robins, martens, and swallows away from most of their old haunts and taken possession. Several persons watched a flock of the brave little fellows try to drive a cat out of the park at the city hall this morning. Hundreds […]
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 28, 1897
A novel sight of squirrels migrating was witnessed near Cumberland, Md. A drove which an eye witness estimated to contain at least 3,000 swam across the Potomac river. About 300 of them were killed by men and boys were they got into the woods.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 14, 1913
Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 13.-John Francis, animal trainer for a circus was rendered unconscious by the kick of a dead horse here today. The horse had been killed to provide food for lions. The animal had been dead 10 minutes when the muscles of its leg relaxed, causing the hoof to strike Francis with great force […]
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 25, 1912
Springfield, Ill., Oct. 25-“Tom,” a pet baboon, tried to transform Springfield into an African jungle and nearly succeeded. He escaped from his cage at the No. 1 engine house, where he had been the pet of the firemen. For an hour he had things his own way, raiding fruit stands and biting four children, one […]
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Cincinnati Mourners Get Into a Cattle Stampede. While the funeral procession which was taking the remains of John Mulvihill to the grave was passing Sycamore and Church streets, Cincinnati, O., the other morning a drove of steers passed. Several animals got into a fierce fight and ran into the carriages. One carriage contained Policeman John […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897
Tamer from Europe Has a Desperate Battle at Winsted, Conn. Mozart, a lion tamer just from Europe, was nearly killed the other night at the Nickel Plate circus at Winsted, Conn., by Mad Lizzie, the lioness that has killed eight men. He had entered the cage just as a furious storm broke, and the deafening […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Party of Campers in the Alleghenies Kill Forty-Seven Rattlers. Miss Bella Hope, the “rattlesnake belle of the Alleghenies,” with three young women companions and two young men, went berrying in the mountains near Belefonte, Pa., Monday. At noon while eating luncheon they witnessed a desperate fight a few hundred feet distant between a wild cat […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 8, 1897
Wichita, Kan., June 22.-The famous steer Jumbo, which had attained the enormous weight of 5,000 pounds and was still growing, was killed Monday. Jumbo was four years old, and measured eight feet tall and twelve feet long. He had massive horns, 13 inches in circumference’ and six feet across, with perfect curves. Mr. Payne decided […]