Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 8, 1904
    Interesting tests were made rcently in the Madison Square Garden, New York, to determine the respective pulling power of horses, men and elephants. Two horses, weighing 1,600 pounds each, together pulled 3,700 pounds, or 550 pounds more than their combined weight. One elephant, weighing 12,000 pounds, pulled 8,750 pounds, or 3,250 pounds less than his weight. Fifty men, aggregating about 7,500 pounds in weight, pulled 8,750 pounds, or just as much as the single elephant. But, like the horses, they pulled more than their own weight. One hunded men pulled 12,000 pounds.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 1, 1905
Interfere with Street Cars and Put Women in Panic at Omaha.
    A plague of crickets has swept down on Omaha and has made life a burden to the inhabitants. The insects appeared suddenly by the millions. Falling on the street car track and being crushed by the wheels, they so greased the rails that traffic was badly crippled. That the little pests came hungry is proved by the fact that they destroy all clothing and carpets with which they come in contact. Bushels of them have been swept from the stores. They cause much terror among the women. They almost put out the street lights.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
[From Wednesdays Sun]
    Yesterday the police of Waukegan shot four dogs for the crime of chicken murder.
    The canines had killed, maimed and mistreated chickens belonging to Louis Thewes, Miss Hill, Mrs. Rod Wells and Mrs. Fillenbeck, all of whom live on different sections of the north side, ranging from Sheridan road west to Mill street and from Clayton street north.
    The dogs simply kill the fowl in blood lust and as far as is known rarely if ever devour the carcases, tearing the birds to pieces and leaving them.
    The record of four running amuck is unique in the annals of the city.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
    Seventy-four horses and twenty-five carriages and wagons were consumed in a fire which destroyed the livery barn of F. G. Dalgren. Sixty-ninth street and Rock Island tracks, Chicago.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 11, 1898
    Cats can swim if they only care to exert themselves sufficiently. The ancient Egyptians used to fish with them on the Nile, according to the representations on the walls, etc. that have come down to us.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 19, 1915
In India Those Birds Have Been Labeled “Shreds of Satan.”
    Travelers in the orient have much to say about the Indian crow, a bird that for uncanny knowingness and prankish audacity has perhaps no equal. Corvus splendens-thus have ornithologists flatteringly labeled him. But a naturalist who knows the Indian crows at first hand has called them “shreds of Satan, cinders from Tartarus.” To give these impish creatures their due, however, it should be said that life in India is not a little enlivened by their presence. A correspondent witnessed the following in incident.
    A small hawk had seized a little bird and perched on a leafless branch to devour his prey. The spectable drew two crows to the spot. They hopped and flapped from branch to branch, noisily discussing the strategy of their intended raid.
    Then one of them quietly slipped away from the surrounding follage. At the same time his mate flew in front of the perching hawk and hovering within a foot of his beak, maintaining a bustling menace of snatching the tidbit. That effectively compelled the attention of the hawk. His prey firmly grasped beneath his feet, he angrily hissed and lunged at the hovering nuisance. So lively was the skirmish that the human onlooker forgot the existence of the second crow. But now that wily bird reappeared some distance in the rear of his destined victim. With stealthy sidings and short noiseless flights, he drew near. Then he made a swift dash, seized the hawk’s long, barred tail by the tip, hung on it with his full weight and toppled the luckless hawk in a complete back somersault from the branch! The released tidbit was instantly seized by the first crow, and the clever pair bore off their booty with much triumphant cawing.-Youth’s Companion.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 13, 1915
Wealthy Farmer Near Beecher Victim of Maddened Bull.
    A wealthy farmer residing south of beecher, near Joliet, is dying at his home as a result of injuries received when he was gored by a mad bull.
    He was chased for twenty minutes about a field and finally caught in a corner. Five ribs were broken, his scalp lacerated and he sustained other minor injuries. Fienne was discovered soon after the accident by his wife.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 24, 1897
The big elk in Forest park paddock in St. Louis was killed. The animal had become too cross for safety. It was brought from Chicago. At Lincoln Park it gored and killed two men, and in the fall of 1895 killed Henry Nelson, keeper of the Forest Park paddock.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 27, 1914
    South Bend, Ind., April 27.-Maggie Kenna, aged five years, was killed and Steven Hants, aged ten years, was injured when a frightened horse dashed into a crowd of children.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, May 4, 1914
Doctor Essaying Part of Rescuer is also attacked.
    Wabash, Ind., May 4.-Mrs. Philip Lemberger, wife of a prominent farmer, was gored to death by a bull at her home. Mrs. Lemberger was crossing a forty-acre field when she was attacked.
    Dr. E. A. Rogers armed himself with a pitchfork and rushed to the woman’s reacue. Six steers joined in the charge and the doctor fought the animals until aid came.