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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 2, 1921
Beats fights as Barnes Circus wagon tilts dangerously; one animal was shot
Many women fainted
The parade of the Al Barnes circus which was in Waukegan last week, was passing through North Lake street, a residential thoroughfare in Aurora, yesterday. Â In one compartment of a gilded cage sat Miss Mabel Stark with a Bengal tiger. Â In another compartment rode three other tigers of Asiatic breed.
Suddenly the wagon hit a bump. Â The connecting door jarred open and into the first compartment sprang a tiger of Siberia. Â The beasts tangled. Â Miss Stark lashed her whip. Â The street was in a panic.
Men, women, and children scrambled to get away from the vicinity of the wagon, which was wabbling precariously as the frightened horses plunged from the side of the pavement. Â Boys climbed trees. Â Several women fainted. Â The screams of the spectators were almost drowned out by the snarling and growling of the tigers.
Finally Miss Stark succeeded in driving the fighting beasts into the rear compartment. Â She banged the door shut and the four tigers continued their battle. Â It was not until several minutes later that half a dozen circus hands, beating with iron bars, managed to separate them. Â One animal was so badly hurt that it had to be shot.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 30, 1922
Lion flesh is said to be very good eating, but tiger is tough and sinewy. Â Nevertheless, the latter is eaten in India as there is a superstition that it imparts strength and cunning to the eater.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 27, 1915
Arouses Proprietor of Hotel When Flames Attack Building.
    Marinette, Wic., Jan. 27.-A dog in the household of Hugh Bahlert, hotel mar at Pound, this county, saved the place from destruction by fire and undoubtedly saved the lives of guests who were sleeping. The dog came to his master’s door and barked until Bahlert arose to investigate. Bahlert found the basement of the hotel in flames.
    With the help of employes and guests he managed to extinguish the blaze.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 3, 1914
Dr. O. N. Smith of This City has Hen That Can Whip any Rooster, He Declares.
Will Make Wager On It.
States That He Will Bet any Amount That Hen Will Score Victory Over Rooster.
    Dr. O. N. Smith of Waukegan, the well known veterinarian is generally known as being level headed. His cranium is so level that in the language of Eugene Ware, a billiard table compared alongside of it, becomes at once perilous declivity. But the friends of the doctor in this city sat up with an unusual jerk today, when they learned of a recent outburst on the part of theotherwise staid local gentleman. The surprise occasioned by the friends of the doctor was sprung when he announced that he would wager any amount of money on a hen possessed by him, declaring that it could whip any rooster, pit stock, or otherwise, in the country.
    That the hen is a militant suffragist of hendom, a demon with spurs and that it annihilates other chickens, merely for the pleasure of seeing their finish, was stated by the doctor. He has placed the hen on exhibition at the poultry show. He left word with the management of the exhibition to accept any or all wagers, from any owner of fighting roosters, that the hen could wallop the earth with their pride.
    The hen is of the White Plymouth Rock variety and one of the finest of its type in the country. It is somewhat advanced in age, however, being eight years old. It is an innocent looking bird.
    Still it is stated the doctor is forced to keep the fighting matron in a pen by itself, as it has a tendency to kill roosters or other hens with impunity.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 27, 1915
Lawrence Princ of the Phil Sheridan Farm Sustained Painful Injuries Today.
Clothes Caught In Shaft.
Horse Became Frightened and Driver of the Milk Wagon Was Thrown Under it.
    Lawrence Princ, who with his brother has been running the Phil Sheridan farm on Milwaukee road, west of Eighteenth street, North Chicago, but who has been moving to the Graham farm on the same road, was the victim of a serious accident this morning when the wheels of a wagon passed over his head, inflicting painful cuts and bruises and causing a possible fracture of the skull.
    Princ was hitching a horse to a milk wagon. The sleeve of his overcoat caught in the end of the shaft and before he could extract it the horse became frightened and started on a run. As he came to a fence the horse leaped a small gate, drawing the milk wagon over him.
    The cloth of Princ’s coat gave way and he dropped to the ground in the path of the milk wagon, the wheels of which passed over his head, inflicking a deep gash in his cheek and causing a score of other cuts and abrasions on his face and scalp.
    The horse continued to run away, hurdling two or three other fences until he finally ran into a wire fence where he received several cuts but which stopped him. Dr. Jolley of North Chicago was summoned to attend to the injured man. He said that although the victim is conscious and does not appear to have sustained a fractured skull it is possible to be positive as yet.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1918
Terrible Tragedy Ten Miles From Antioch When Wm. Hennie is Victim of a Hog.
Animal is Finally Shot.
Hired Man Unable to Save Employer, Finally Sends Bullet into Its Heart.
    Can you imagine a 32-year-old man being killed, being chewed to death by a hog, within 30 miles of Waukegan? Here’s a story which argues for Voliva and his opposition to hogs and his contention that there’s no place in the world for animals of that sort:
[Crystal Lake Herald]
    Will Hennie, who resides on a farm near Richmond, 10 miles west of Antioch, and who is a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Malsch of this city, was attacked and killed by a Chester White boar as he was walking across the pasture in which the boar was kept.
    Immediately after he had eaten dinner Hennie started to cross the pasture where the boar was feeding, a thing he had often done before and which he of course, did not dream of considering as endangering his life, as the animal, a good deal of a pet, had apparently been peaceable enough heretofore, even allowing children to play with him.
    Whether the creature became enraged at something else and in his anger attacked Hennie or whether its innate savageness cropped out just at this particular time will never be known, but the animal must have rushed at the unfortunate man almost as soon as he entered the pasture, for within a short time he had gored and injured Hennie so terribly that death almost immediately released him from his terrible suffering.
    Hennie’s cries for help were heard by the hired man who, seeing he alone could not deal with the boar, called a neighbor, and together the two men beat the creature with clubs in an attempt to get him away from the prey he was literally devouring. Even the cruel blows failed to have any effect on the maddened boar, and it was finally necessary to shoot the creature. When Hennie was at last freed from the animal he was so terribly injured it was well that death soon released him from his suffering. he was disfigured past recognition the animal having fairly chewed his victim to pieces.
    The boar, a show hog worth about $500, weighed 750 pounds.
    Hennie leaves a wife and one child.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 28, 1881
    Our Naples correspondent writes: “The other day, at the village of Piscinnola, a singular race took place, customary on the occasion of the annual feast of the patron saint-St. Antonio. At two p. m. the picture of the saint, with his inseparable pig, was affixed to the door of the parish church, and all the proprietors of horses, assas, mules, pigs, fowls, pigeons, etc., brought their respective animals, which were decorated with long varicolored ribbons, and deposited their oboli at the feet of the saint. Then followed a grotesque and characteristic scene. Horses, asses, oxen, and even some poor pigs were mounted, and a race commenced, during which riders fell off, beasts took fright and boys were trampled under foot, while timid sheep ran wildly hither and thither, mixing themselves up with the legs of their larger companions. Meanwhile crackers were exploded, regardless of possible danger to the immense crowd. Antiquity seemed revived, but the prosaic present was represented by a Brigadier of Police, who calmly enjoyed from a balcony the misfortunes of the devotees, who, covered with bruises in consequence of numerous fumbles, will long have cause to remember the solemn feast of St. Antonio and his pig.”-London News.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1873
The Olympia Courier of November 25th relates this:
While a party were engaged in catching salmon in North Bay, on Saturday last, an enormous panther was discovered in their vicinity, leisurely swimming across from an island to the main land. Â The party were destitute of any implement wherewith to deal summarily with him, yet the love of adventure prompted a demonstration upon him. Â One of the gentleman seized a stick which lay in the boat to which was attached a sharp point, and with it commenced an onslaught upon him. Â This had the effect to exasperate the animal, when he turned upon the boat — a dilemma unlooked for by the party — causing a sensation more easily felt than described. Â The stick was again resorted to and thrust into the panther’s mouth, but hie jaws immediately closed upon it, and held it so tight that extrication was impossible. Â Recourse was then had to the aboriginal plan of seizing him by the tail and holding his head under water until death ensued. Â In this the party were frustrated, as the panther was too heavy, and, wearied with the excitement, the gentlemen were at last obliged to desist and let his majesty go in peace. Â Upon reaching the shore he turned round, looked benignly back upon his tormentors, the shook himself and slowly made his way up the bluff.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Albany, NY., Aug 5. — A single bolt of lightning at Grooms Corners killed instantly three men who were hurrying to the barn with a load of hay from a field on the Lockrow farm. Â The men were Spencer Lockrow, 30, son of the owner of the farm, and two laborers, Simon Watson and Andrew Eckhard. Â Mrs. John Lockrow, mother of Spencer, stood by an open window watching the shower and saw the lightning strike the party. Â Besides the men the horses were killed.
When the bodies were recovered a slight scorch of his hair and a torn shoe were the only marks on Spencer. Â The other two men were unmarked. Â The wagon and hay were
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 13, 1922
International News Service. Â Paris, July 13. — Louis Juge made each night “the Circuit of Death.” Â Which is to say he rode a bicycle around the edge of a cage in which were pacing several mature and ferocious looking lions. Â Small boys voted it the best stunt in the circus.
Opening night of the Paris engagement made Juge nervous. Â Just as he reached full speed the bicycle slipped and precipitated him among the lions. Â His rib broken, he was unable to move.
The crowd was horrified. Â Several women fainted. Â Tremblingly, circus employees went to Jude’s rescue. Â Only the lions, leaving the wounded man considerably alone, seemed bored by the whole affair.