Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 4, 1733
London, England October 16, 1733. On Monday last as two young lads were fighting at Clerkenwell-Green, a large dog, belonging to a Brewer’s Dray, passing by, seized one of the boys by the hand, and not only bit him in a cruel manner, but held so fast that it was with difficullty the boys hand […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, March 27, 1732
By a letter from Martha’s Vinyard of the 23rd of December, 1731, we have an Account, that a ship is arrived there, in 14 Weeks from Rotterdam where they took on board 150 People for Pennsylvania, and that above One Hundred of them died at sea through Hunger and Cold. That a Rat was sold […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, August 21, 1945
The Columbia, Va. Spy states that a little girl, about eight years of age, was killed by a snake a few days since, near Bainbridge. She was out getting blackberries and remaining a longer time than usual, search was made for her. She was found dead, with a large black snake coiled around her neck.
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Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 19, 1858
The late hail storm in Minnesota was of a most destrutive character. In Freeborn County, we are told, it raged as a tornado, tearing hundreds of oak trees almost into shreds, tumbling down fences, flattening corn fields, demolishing gardens, and doing much other damage. In Fairfield, Geneva, Clark’s Grove, etc. the storm was characterized by […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 5, 1898
Thousands Perish from Cold and Starvation in Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 9,-Thousands of sheep are reported to have perished from cold and starvation in western Wyoming. The cold has been intense for 60 days and old-timers say that it is the hardest winter they have seen for the past ten years. Carbon county has 500.000 […]
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 10, 1876
An Awful and Almost Incredible Story. The number of rats inhabiting the rocky crevices and cavernous passages at the summit of Pike’s pike-says a correspondent of yesterday’s Pueblo Chieftain-have recently become formidable and dangerous. These animals are known to feed on saccharine gum that percolates through the pores of the rocks apparently upheaved by some […]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 20, 1911
Chicago Firemen Escape Blaze Which is Fatal to One. Chicago, March 20.-One man was killed and 300 head of cattle were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a square block of the huge network of pens in the Union Stock Yards here. The body of the man trapped by the flames was found […]
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 24, 1908
Run Down at a Crossing as They Were Returning from a Basketball Game. Spring Valley, N. Y., Feb.24.-A foam specked pair of horses that tore through the streets dragging between them a splintered wagonpole brought to the village the first news of a grade crossing accident in which eight members of its most prominent families […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 13, 1910
Infant Snatched From Mother’s Arms by Beast in Theater. Cleveland, Tenn., May 13.-A trained lion which was being exhibited on an open stage here suddenly snatched a baby from the arms of its mother, carried it to the back of the stage, dashed it to the floor and planted both forepaws on the little one’s […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 23, 1897
Kentucky Boy and His Brother Meet Horrible Death While Playing. Willie, aged seven, and Eddie, aged nine, sons of Matthew Cox, a farmer living near Mannsville, Taylor county, Ky., met terrible deaths from rattlesnake bites the other evening. They were playing hide and seek with some other children and Willie ran into the bushes and […]
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