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Monthly Archives: November 2014

First Elephant In America.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 3, 1898

How Moses Smith’s Eccentric Notion Made a Fortune for Another Man. It is not generally known that a former citizen of Owensboro brought across the ocean the first elephant that was ever in America, says the Owensboro (Ky.) Inquirer. The name of the gentleman was Moses Smith, who at one time owned a vast body […]

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Dog Took Its Own Revenge.

Friday, November 21, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 4, 1897

Puppy Killed by Cyelist, Its Mother Attacked All Bicyelists. Wheelmen were attacked by a dog the other day, one after another. It was no ordinary vicious brute, but a dog seeking vengeance. It is dead now, and the bicyclists who shot at it fruitlessly and swore at it ferociously are sorry. The dog had a […]

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Flames Trap Cattle.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 20, 1911

Chicago Firemen Escape Blaze Which is Fatal to One. Chicago, March 20.-One man was killed and 300 head of cattle were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a square block of the huge network of pens in the Union Stock Yards here. The body of the man trapped by the flames was found […]

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Fear Widespread Hydrophobia Infection.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903

Farmers residing in the town of Bristol fear an epidemic of hydrophobia among the sheep of Kenosha county. A short time ago a mad dog passed through that section of the county and bit a number of sheep. In one flock, belonging to William Stevens, five sheep have already gone mad and, breaking from their […]

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Lake Marine News.

Saturday, November 8, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 1, 1897

The rats that deserted the little schooner Mary E.Dykes, which waterlogged in the lake eight miles off Evanston Tuesday night, showed bad judgement. When the boat began filling with water, not withstanding the heroic efforts of the crew to save their boat from shipwreck, the rats came running up in droves on the deck, which […]

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Attacked By Lynxes.

Saturday, November 8, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 7, 1898

Cedar Inspector’s Battle for Life in a Michigan Swamp. A cedar inspecter in one of Robert Rae’s camps at Hillman, Mich., started for camp at a late hour. In a lonely swamp, about one mile from camp, he was attacked by seven lynxes. Having nothing with which to defend himself, his first thought was to […]

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The Lion-Tamer’s Job.

Saturday, November 8, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 1, 1899

One Who Has Been Bitten Forty-Seven Times During His Dangerous Career. “Eternal vigilance is the price of immunity from bites,” said a lion tamer recently to a New York Telegraphman. “Although my lions do not often catch me, they do with a frequencey sufficient for all practical purposes. Within three months I have been bitten […]

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