Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
    A flock of sheep belonging to James Maguire, Esq., of Benton, got upon the railroad track last Wednesday in time to be struck by a passing train. Thirty-five out of eighty were killed and a number of others injured.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 17, 1875
    Mr. Jessie Laverty, of East Pennaboro, living near Booser’s Mill, was lately very much annoyed by rats, which carried off his eggs, ate the corn in his crib, and then invaded his grainary and commenced destroying a bin of wheat. Mr. Laverty, on examination, found but one place where the rats got in. He […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 7, 1896
    By the time Stephen Perletice, of Chicago, gets through with the Illinois Humane Society, the police and two or three insurance companies he will know enough not to set fire to any more rats. Some of the retribution that is coming to him has reached him already, for the poor beasts which he tortured […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 15, 1876
    An amusing experiment on rats was recently perpetrated in a mercantile house in Petersburg, Vt. Two of these animals had been trapped, and it was decided to try the effect of whisky upon them. Forty drops were administered to each of them by force, and the result awaited. They were placed in a wide […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 19, 1905
    The 1-month-old child of Henry Yantes, which was bitten by a rat about a week ago, died in Columbus, Ohio. The baby was left in the cradle by its mother, who went to another part of the house. When she returned she saw a rat gnawing the face of the screaming baby. The rat […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 16, 1894
    A very sad occurrence is reported from the Upper Gila, Mexico. A Mexican woman named Sisto Wesley, who had lost a little child a short time since., went to the graveyard to mourn over the grave of her little one, and while there two bears set upon her and devoured her.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 13, 1922
    Two carloads of cattle bound for the stock yards were burned to death or shot to end their sufferings following a train wreck at Cary, Ill., thirty miles from Chicago, Sunday night. Two men were slightly injured.     A milk train on the Northwestern railroad, running ten miles an hour, struck the stock train, […]
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 30, 1886
    Fort Elliott, Tex., Jan. 28.-It is estimated that fully 15,000 head of cattle lie dead on the prairie within a radius of seventy-five miles of this place. The prairie dogs are nearly all dead. However, not more than 1 percent of the native cattle have died from cold. Several persons were badly frozen. Dan […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1898
J. McKeegan’s famous bunch of shorthorned cattle, numbering 300 head, was pasturing in the reservation near Bancroft, Neb., on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and were either […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 28, 1905
    Statistics published in Spain state that during 1904 nearly 12,000 bulls were killed in Bull fights. The bulls killed about 10,000 horses. The best and most valuable bulls of the arena are raised on the vast estates of the Duke of Veragun, who has made a fortune out of his bussiness.