Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Frank C. Bostock, manager of a Zoo, is Rescued from Death by a Woman. Frank C. Bostock, manager of the Hagenbeck zoo, which is wintering at Kansas City, Mo., was terribly bitten and lacerated by Brutus, the big lion which has already maimed several men. He was saved from being killed by the energetic action […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1898
Dog Comes to the Rescue of Colorado Cow Herder in Nick of Time. A cow herder, Mike Sullivan, encountered a large gray wolf at Prospect lake, near Colorado Springs, Col., the other day while attending to his cattle. Armed only with a club, he pursued it a short distance, when it turned on him. He […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 20, 1908
Chicago, Aug. 20.-Like the heroic Ursus, who wrestled with a bull in the arena, John Maffey clung to the horns of a maddened steer which had escaped from the stockyards while children and other pedestrians fled to safety. For fifteen minutes Maffey kept up his battle with the animal, and was about to fall exhausted […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 1, 1910
Rodent Nibbles at Bacon on Bruised Foot and Sinks Teeth in Toe. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 1.-Arther, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schofield, almost bled to death as a result of having been bitten on the toe by a rat. While playing about the yard the child stubbed his toe and the mother […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Cattle Sought in Pines of Wexford Chase Their Pursuers. Cadillac, Mich., Aug. 5.-Wild cattle made so by years of roving in the pine slashings north of this city, made a rush on Bert Gardner, Albert Rupers and Charles Gipe and would have gored them to death had not they been able to shin up some […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 6, 1910
Chicago Boy Accidently Steps On Mud Hen and Biddy takes Exception With the Result Boy Loses Both Eyes. As the result of an attack by an infuriated bird at Fox Lake on Tuesday, Walter Hansen, 13 years old, son of Theodore Hansen of Chicago, may lose his sight. The sight of one eye is entirely […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 5, 1906
Swift Runners on Snowshoes Make Short Work of the Brutes. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by and upon their raindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man; but, as taxes are assessed upon the number of deer, he is inclined to underestimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 18, 1906
Bloomington, Ill., Oct. 18 Gibson City residents are much excited over a report that a monkey, which died there last week, belonging to a carnival company, had been interred in the local cemetery. The owner purchased an expensive coffin, child’s size, and is said to have buried the animal in the cemetery. An investigation has […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1906
Twenty Wild Animals Invade Chorumo and Eat Eleven Natives. A herd of hungry lions attacked the town of Chorumo, British Central Africa, recently, and not only killed eleven natives, but put the rest of the population to flight and demolished many of their huts. Between fifteen and twenty lions made the raid at dusk. They […]
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Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 1, 1854
The Tensas [Ark.] Herald says, a man named Lunsicker and party, killed in that neighborhood eleven bears in the space of seven days. One or two of them were perfect monsters, as big as buffaloes.
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