Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 7, 1906
Infuriated, Attacks Horse Tearing Open Abdomen-Animal Dies Almost Instantly. Â Â Â Â A horse belonging to John Suydam, who lives northwest of Libertyville about two miles, was gored to death last week by a ferocious bull which attacked it upon the highway. Mr. Suydam had turned the horse loose upon the road. A neighbor, Joe Beckler, had […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1894
    No country in the world offers greater facility for stock breeding than does Argentina, in South America, and in no place is breeding carried on more extensively. The late droughts there, however, have played havoc with the herds, and reports from a single province show how great has been the destruction. This is the […]
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 27, 1902
    A weasel came into the house of William Woodard at Pleasantville, Ind., and climbed upon the bed where the infant child of Woodard was sleeping with its mother. The weasel bit the child in the hand and sucked away the little one’s blood. The child died.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 2, 1905
    While the infant child of Preston MeIimaine of Evansville, Ind., was sleeping in its crib a large house cat leaped upon its breast and badly lacerated its face. Several large holes were torn in the cheeks of the child, and it lived but a short time. It is supposed the cat had hydrophobia.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 27, 1901
    Jerry, the fighting black cat of the fish commission steamer Albatross, after 16 years of service, recently met another black cat and died as a result of the encounter. The ship’s crew buried the mascot, wrapped in the flag, with martial honors, and held a court-martial over his slayer. The later was sentenced to […]
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901
Demented New Jersey Tailor Feeds on Pickled Tabbies. Â Â Â Â A Newark, N. J., tailor is charged with forcing his young children to eat cat meat. He had killed the cat, pickled it, then ate some of it himself and compelled his children to follow suit. He is thought to be partially insane. He says that […]
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A ferry-boat load of cattle were being taken across the Illinois river at Newport recently when they became frightened and rushed to one side of the craft, upsetting it. One of the men in charge, and all the animals, were drowned.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 10, 1912
     Mount Vernon, Ill. May 8-A birddog belonging to Ashibel Free attacked a beehive in a playful mood. The bees stung the dog to death.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1860
    The elephantess Jenny, attached to Dan Rice’s show was poisoned between Salem and Mitchell last week. The poison was administered in an apple given to it by one of the audience. The animal at last accounts was not dead, but there seemed to be no hope of its recovery, as it was very much swollen […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 23, 1906
    A late message over the Times wireless service system states that Wm. Pester recently purchased a Plymouth Rock rooster from Gus Gustafson of Hainesville, under the following conditions. If the rooster could lick Ed. Higley’s rooster, who held the welterweight championship of Miser avenue, Pester was to pay $1.50 for the bird, but if […]