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A Tale Of Two Skulls.

  Virginia City Enterprise.      A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a friend in this city, tells of a horrible reminder of the fearful snow storms of last winter, and of the perils of those who were caught out and lost their way on the plains. He says that recently, while he and […]

A Woman Kills Twelve Wolves.

       We are indebted to Ephraim Brown, Esq., for the particulars of a fight which occured recently at Bridge Creek, between Mrs. T. C. Higgins and about a dozen wolves: Early in the evening, Mrs. Higgins heard an unusual noise at the calf-pen as if a dozen wolves were contemplating an attack upon the […]

Wolves In Hungary.

       Numerous cases of depredations by wolves have recently occured in Hungary. A band of these animals passed threw one of the suburbs of Tomesvar, destroying any animal which was not housed. A clergyman who was returning home in a sledge from a neighboring town was beset by a pack of wolves. He bade the […]

Devoured By A Wolf.

       A little girl shut up as punishment for some fault in her father’s barn at Baud [Morbihun] in France, was killed by a wolf, which by climbing a rubbish heap, was able to enter by the roof. The family had been at work in the fields at some distance, and on the father […]

Sheep Mortality

       Washington, D. C., June 29,-The investigation into the losses of sheep during the past year shows a total of nearly 3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by dogs and wolves and various diseases and the aggregate money value of nearly $8,000,000. The average percentage of loss was nearly 8 percent. The proportion is […]

A Result Of Emancipation.

  New York Evening Post      Strange as it may seem, the emancipation of the serfs in Russia has increased the number of wolves in that country. The serfs used to act as their masters drivers in the great wolf- hunts which formed a national pastime; but since the liberation the wolf-hunt has gradually become […]

Boy Caged With Animals.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 06/26/1903. Stolen Child Tells of Terrible Treatment by Showmen.      Kidnapped by circus hands, John Layton, a 6-year-old boy, told the police at East St. Louis that his clothes had been taken from him, that his face and hands had been discolored as a disguise, and […]

Sheep Killed By Blizzard.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 05/29/1903. 1,500,000 Lost in State of Montana Since Last December.      Statistics compiled by President T. C. Power, of the Montana board of sheep commissioners fixes the total number of sheep lost in the recent blizzard at 900,000. Up to the time of the storm 600,000 […]

Feeds Husband To Chickens.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois Woman Accused of Killing and Grinding Up Her Husband. Mrs. Lafayette Taylor is a prisoner in Monticello, N. Y., charged with killing her husband on Tuesday, Jan. 27. On that day Lafe Taylor disappeared and his wife told the neighbors he had gone to Ellensville on business. […]

Almost Eaten By A Bear-Roe, The Famous Hunter Meets With Misadventure.

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 06/05/1880. Helena [M. T.] Independent.      On Saturday, the 8th last., Hannibal Roe, the best known hunter in Montana, met with an adventure which maimed him for life. He had gone up the Little Prickly Pear to Wolf Creek Station, and with his gun in good condition, he […]