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Monthly Archives: January 2018

A Child Devoured by Rats.

Saturday, January 20, 2018
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1860

A poor Irish woman named Mary Conner, about thirty years of age, being about to become a mother, on Sunday last applied for admission to Bellevue Hospital. She was at once taken in, and placed in what is known as the “waiting room,” where there were already several patients. During the evening she was attended […]

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Horrible Action Reported.

Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 4, 1905

Washburn Springs the Scene of Most Repulsive Incident. Woman Said To Have Killed Sick Porkers, and Then Served Them to Her Boarders Who Summarily Took Flight. There have been many startling tales given to the public as originating in the foreign settlement-Washburn Springs- but the one which is perhaps the most repulsive and really unbelievable […]

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Rabbits as Acrobats.

Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 27, 1903

The rat is, as no one will doubt, a very fair climber. He can scamper about anywhere in the roof of a barn or can ascend the Ivy that grow on the house wall, and make the lives of the pigeons in their cotes anything but happy ones. The rabbit, on the other hand, is […]

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A Squirrel Colony.

Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 27, 1903

Brandywine Manor had a large colony of grey squirrels, but no shooting is permitted near the village, the squirrels being the pets of all the residents of the place. A number of years ago the late William Rettew, who resided in the village, discovered a number of squirrels in the garret of his house and […]

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