Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 23, 1897
Crawls into Her Throat After Meat When She is Masticating it.
A case that is exciting much interest among medical men in Dubuque, Ia., is that of a deaf and dumb girl named Clara Kunts, who is the unfortunate possessed of a live lizard in her stomach. The girl can feel it running up and down her throat, and at times it nearly suffocates her. It is particularly troublesome in the morning. The other day while she was eating a piece of meat it came up, snatched the meat and dropped back again. The doctors attending her have decided to starve her for a few days, and then by putting a piece of meat in her mouth induce the creature to come out far enough to be grasped by pinchers. It is thought she swallowed it some time ago, while it was very small, while eating raw cabbage.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 12, 1897
The little English sparrows are the gamest birds that live. They have driven the bluebirds, robins, martens, and swallows away from most of their old haunts and taken possession. Several persons watched a flock of the brave little fellows try to drive a cat out of the park at the city hall this morning. Hundreds of sparrows hop about the lawn and catch worms in the big flower bed all day. A large grey cat stole across the yard and hid among the flowers. She lay motionless a long time watching a chance to spring upon a sparrow, but the birds watched her and kept out of her reach. Finally the flock seemed to be holding a council of war. They grouped themselves on the turf a few yards away from the cat and chattered vociferously. Then they began hopping towards the cat, forming a regular line of battle. Puss became nervous as the big flock of birds came almost within her reach and she backed away, hoping that one would be foolhardy enough to advance within her reach. Suddenly, the whole flock of birds took wing with great shattering and whirring and flew directly over the cat. It frightened her and she fled. Then the sparrows settled among the flowers and began scratching for worms.-Kansas City Star.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 28, 1897
A novel sight of squirrels migrating was witnessed near Cumberland, Md. A drove which an eye witness estimated to contain at least 3,000 swam across the Potomac river. About 300 of them were killed by men and boys were they got into the woods.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 14, 1913
Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 13.-John Francis, animal trainer for a circus was rendered unconscious by the kick of a dead horse here today. The horse had been killed to provide food for lions. The animal had been dead 10 minutes when the muscles of its leg relaxed, causing the hoof to strike Francis with great force in the head.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 25, 1912
Springfield, Ill., Oct. 25-“Tom,” a pet baboon, tried to transform Springfield into an African jungle and nearly succeeded. He escaped from his cage at the No. 1 engine house, where he had been the pet of the firemen. For an hour he had things his own way, raiding fruit stands and biting four children, one of them Mary Nelson, aged nine, a scholar at the Battle Stuart Institute for girls.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Cincinnati Mourners Get Into a Cattle Stampede.
While the funeral procession which was taking the remains of John Mulvihill to the grave was passing Sycamore and Church streets, Cincinnati, O., the other morning a drove of steers passed. Several animals got into a fierce fight and ran into the carriages. One carriage contained Policeman John Connor and ex-Alderman Richard Ennis. Both were thrown to the street and severely injured. The cattle lunged at one another and then crashed against the carriage in which the Mulvihill family was seated, breaking the carriage door. The members of the family jumped from the carriage and ran into a house. Men pounded the brutes on the head with clubs and stones, but were unable to separate them. They ran against the hearse and almost upended it. All the mourners and people on the streets were panic-stricken and several of them had narrow escapes from being trampled to death. A large number of men then made a rush on the animals, which were finally driven away. The mourners reentered their carriages and the procession was resumed.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1897
Tamer from Europe Has a Desperate Battle at Winsted, Conn.
Mozart, a lion tamer just from Europe, was nearly killed the other night at the Nickel Plate circus at Winsted, Conn., by Mad Lizzie, the lioness that has killed eight men.
He had entered the cage just as a furious storm broke, and the deafening thunder frightened and enraged the animal. Three thousand people gasped for breath, and half an acre of women shrieked: “Oh!” as a thunderbolt flamed out of the storm like a meteor.
The terrified people saw the man eater leap at the trainer’s throat. She missed it, but sank her white teeth deep into Mozart’s arm. Screams and shrieks, louder than the storm, rang through the arena-then applause greeted the man of iron.
He sank as eight-inch dagger, which he carried, into the beast, which leaped back to its corner as if shot from a gun. Then the attendants rushed in and the man escaped.
Scores of women fainted, but the big tamer came to time, pale and smiling. Exports in lion bites said Mozart would recover.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Party of Campers in the Alleghenies Kill Forty-Seven Rattlers.
Miss Bella Hope, the “rattlesnake belle of the Alleghenies,” with three young women companions and two young men, went berrying in the mountains near Belefonte, Pa., Monday.
At noon while eating luncheon they witnessed a desperate fight a few hundred feet distant between a wild cat and a rattlesnake.
After a few minutes of fighting the cat went at the snake with teeth and claws and literally tore it into shreds. A moment later from out of every crevice in the surrounding rocks other rattlers began to crawl, until the ground seems perfectly alive with them.
Two of the women fainted. Miss Hope killed the wild cat and with the young men killed all the snakes.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 8, 1897
Wichita, Kan., June 22.-The famous steer Jumbo, which had attained the enormous weight of 5,000 pounds and was still growing, was killed Monday. Jumbo was four years old, and measured eight feet tall and twelve feet long. He had massive horns, 13 inches in circumference’ and six feet across, with perfect curves. Mr. Payne decided to kill him and have him mounted while his hide was in good condition.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 5, 1898
Puss Meets With a New Kind of Creature and Has a Hard Time of It.
Farmer Egerton has a large cat named Scrapper which has long been the terror of all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood. One day lately he met his match in a large turtle. Discovering the queer creature taking a leisurely promenade in the meadow. Scrapper leaped on its back and clawed away at a lively rate. The turtle seemed to rather enjoy the performance, so Scrapper changed his tactics. He soon saw where the turtle’s head came out and he sat down to watch the spot, reports the New York Press.
Presently the turtle peeped out to see if his enemy was gone. Scrapper made a grab and missed. This was repeated three times, and then the turtle, keeping his head safely inside the shell, put out his feet and attempted to crawl away. Then Scrapper caught a foot of the turtle with his teeth, and the fight began in earnest. The turtle pulled and struggled, but finding itself being pulled away, put out its head and with a quick snap caught one of the cat’s hind feet in its viselike jaws. Scrapper pulled, bit and scratched, and doubtless would have called the fight off, but the turtle held on in triumph.
Finally Scrapper secured a good hold of the turtle’s head, and the turtle would have withdrawn if he could. But the victorious Scrapper was in a short time limping home with the turtle’s head in his mouth, as a trophy of his hard fought battle.