Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 13, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 02/13/1903. Â Â Â Â Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, quartermaster of the British army, testified before the war inquiry commission that 349,728 horses and 53,339 mules and donkeys were lost in the South African war, enclusive of 15,960, which were lost on the voyage to South Africa.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 11, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/11/1903. Fire Does $263,000 Damages In Pittsburg. Flames, Which Start In Livery Stable, Sweep Nearly A Square Of Buildings.     Fire which broke out in the large stable of the Allegheny Transfer Company at Sixteenth street and Liberty avenue, Pittsburg, at 2 0’clock Tuesday morning resulted in […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 18, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on July 18, 1922. A “Companion boy” who lived in Missouri, and who has been reading the paper since he was a little shaver, writes to tell us what he knows about the cannibalistic habits of snakes. As my brother and I were cocking hay in a […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Monday, December 23, 1901
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on December 23, 1901. Â Â Â Â Oakland, Neb., Dec. 23-L. Sanbloom, a farmer 88 years old, living a mile south of town, was found by his son lying helpless and unconscious in the hog yard with swine feeding on the flesh of his still warm living body. He is supposed […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 16, 1902
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on May 16, 1902. Â Â Â Â Jacob Roth, aged 67, one of the wealthiest farmers of Meigs Township, Ohio, met a horrible death. A savage boar which he was trying to separate from some other hogs, turned upon and gored him. He died in three minutes.
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 15, 1900
Published in The Lake Count Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on June 15, 1900. County Recorder in Iowa Dismembered by Porcine Brutes. Â Â Â Â The body of former County Recorder J. P. Suttman of Grundy County was found in a hog pen at Grundy Center, badly mutilated by the swine. He had attempted to clean the pen, had […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 14, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on September 14, 1894. Â Â Â Â A frightful duel with knives was fought by two prominent farmers, Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy, near Polkville, Ky. Murphy’s hogs broke into Osborn’s cornfield, and this caused the trouble. The two cut and slashed each other in a frightful manner, and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, February 8, 1873
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on February 8, 1873. Â Â Â Â A lad of eight was killed and eaten by hogs, in Huntington county, Indiana, a short time since.
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894.     P. W. Schenck, a New York banker who has interests in Montana, told of a rancher buying 1,000 range horses in Fergus County, Montana, for $3 a head. He says that the man who bought them slaughtered them, after which he boiled the […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 16, 1886
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 16, 1886. Â Â Â Â Of a train of hogs which arrived Friday at Kansas City, seven- carloads had been frozen to death.
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