Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, May 10, 1910
J. B. Martin Suffers Injuries from Attacks of Huge Bird. Finally Compelled to Abandon Horse and Seek Safety in Brush Pile-Reaches City After Dark. Buena Vista, Cal., May 10-While J. B. Martin, a forest ranger, was riding from the mountain side west of Buena Vista he was attacked by a large eagle, which fought him […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 19, 1877
Aurora, Illinois.-Up to last year some 700 cows had run in the streets of this city to the great disgust and annoyance of the people generally. This was convenient to the cow owners, but our citizens, by a vote of two to one on the subject, decided that the city should no longer be used […]
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, December 13, 1736
We hear from Dumfries, that a large Tortoife was taken by some fishermen upon Blackshaw Sands; at first they did not know what to make of it, but were in some fear, but after some time gaining courage, they attacked him with pitchforks, which he twisted and broke when thruft into his mouth; finding it […]
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 19, 1738
They write from Lee in Kent, England that all the cattle and horses belonging to Mr. Smith of that town, has had the misfortune to be bit by a mad dog and have been drove down to the sea and into the water to prevent if possible, the ill effects of the bite.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 12, 1738
Not long since, as the King of Sweden was a Bear Hunting in the Woods near Stockholm, in company with several of the Nobility of his court, he killed a wild Bear of an enormous size, measuring six Ells long; and in all respects proportionable; the skin of it is stuffed and otherwise preserved, and […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, December 13, 1736
The Dutch have taken this year 589 Whales on the coast of Greenland and the French and Spaniards together have taken 70 Whales.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Published in the Bloomington Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois on Tuesday, November 23, 1920
Glencoe, Wyo., Nov. 22.-It took the combined efforts of the Spaulding family today to save 3-year-old Walter Spaulding from being carried away by a giant eagle at their ranch near here. The huge bird, with a wing spread of eight feet, attacked Walter in the ranch yard. He grasped the eagle by the neck and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 14, 1909
A fox on emergency will sham death to perfection. A master of hounds once noosed a fox in a whip as he bolted before a terrier. The fox appeared to be strangled. When held up by the scruff of the neck his eyes were seen to be closed, his jaws gaped, and the body hung […]
Published in the Libertyville Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 12, 1908
Pushed into a sixty foot well by a frolicsome bull on the L. J. Lobdell place near Long Lake, tenanted by Robert Runyard, a colt was near rescue three times and finally was killed near the brink of the well by being choked to death by the rope about its neck. Two colts, including the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 28, 1898
Kansas City, Mo., March 28.-Senor Julian Azcue, an agent of the Spanish government from Havana, and Antonio Maestre, of St. Louis, are in the Kansas City market purchasing mules for the Spanish army. They have practically cleaned the market of medium-sized mules, having purchased 600 to be delivered on the wharf at New Orleans by […]