Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, May 30, 1853
On Friday last several of our citizens had a full view of a monster in our river answering the description of the Sea Serpent. They say it was from sixteen to eighteen feet long, with a very large head resembling the alligator. The circumference of its body near its head was about twenty-five or twenty-six […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, April 7, 1853
The terrible accident which happened a short time since in Boston, from the running away of a horse, frightened by the approach of a locomotive, has set inquiry to work to find out the best mode of preventing such a catastrophe in similar cases. A correspondent of Boston Transcript, who has observed the mode adopted […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 13, 1853
A number of whelps, the offspring of a lioness which died on the passage from India to England, have been given over to the maternal charge of a female terrier. The canine was deprived of her own young and the lions substituted. The strange family goes on most harmoniously.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 20, 1853
The incursions of bears and wolves into settled parts of Norway and Sweden, are described as having been frightful during the winter just passed. The bears come fearlessly into the villages and the smaller peasant settlements in Norway, break into the cattle enclosures, kill the oxen and cows and feast themselves whole nights through; while […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
Vernon Baily, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by four wolves of which he got trace was a […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
Last week when a horse belonging to E. DeMeyer of North Chicago became seriously ill and began to cough and choke it was not known what was the matter with it and as fears for death were entertained a veterinary was called. The veterinary at once said that the animal had eaten something in the […]
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, 1909
Express Wagon Driver and Street Car Conductor Battle in Wagon. Chicago, May 12.-Fighting back and forth in an express wagon, which a runaway horse was dragging toward the open drawbridge, two men were saved from death through the heroic efforts of a city fireman. The rescued men were Joseph Chouse, owner of the express wagon, […]
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, June 8, 1910
F. W. Dubbs, Farmer, is Found Dead in Tree of Fright. Colt Kicks Another to Death and Horse Bites a Woman-Cow Knocks Woman Down-Rescued. Pittsburg, Pa., June 8.-Perils of farm life are reported in dispatches from rural communities in this and neighboring states. F. W. Dubbs, a farmer near Lisbon, O., had a battle with […]
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 12, 1909
Sidewalks and Rails Covered and Trains are Delayed. Gouverneur, N. Y., July 12.-In a heavy wind and rain storm thousands of small frogs fell, covering the sidewalks. The rails of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdenburg division of the New York Central railroad for half a mile were buried and trains delayed.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
A recent writer in the Field newspaper gives the dimensions of an old Indian elephant, which would scarcely have been much inferior in size to a mastadon. According to his account the animal measured 11 and three-quarters feet in height at the shoulders, 25 feet 5 inches from the tip of the trunk to the […]