Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 13, 1886
As the 10:20 train was coming south this morning, a number of dogs were playing upon the track, and they were struck by the engine. After the train had passed it was found that two large greyhound’s and one Newfoundland-all valuable dogs-were killed. The worthless curs got “nary a scratch.”
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 13, 1886
The Rockford Journal says: “It is estimated that at least 10,000 hogs have died with the cholera within a radius of fifteen miles about this city during the past season, and the disease is still prevalent. Some authorities on stock matters declare the plague to be measles instead of cholera.”
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 6, 1894
A Big Gorilla, a Small Boy, a Side Show and Some Hoosier Heroes. As the side show of the Hall Circus was being opened to the public at Butlerville, Ind. Ko-Ko-Mongo, the big gorilla, sprang against its cage door, pushed it open, grabbed a small boy, who was looking on, opened mouthed, and in an […]
Published in the The Evanston Index, Evanston, Illinois on Saturday, January 7, 1899
The large owl, the veteran of the Santiago campaign, that has been at Wilkerson Bros.’ grocery store, is dead. The bird escaped Spanish and American bullets only to die a violent and tragic death. Friday night last week it caught one of its feet in the wire cage, and when the store was opened Saturday […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 2, 1898
At Perry, Okla., a baby was attacked by a monkey and almost killed. The monkey belonged to a show which is wintering in town and it got out of its cage, ran into the house of A. M. Patterson and attacked his two-year-old girl. The child’s face was lacerated and one arm and hand badly […]
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, July 25, 1871
A Young Man Lost for Fifteen Days in the Woods of Oregon. The Portland Oregonian of July 4 contains the following story of the sufferings of a young man, whose personal appearance, it says, indicates its truth. His acquaintances also say that he is trustworthy: During the last week of May a young man who […]
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 8, 1854
The Dubuque Herald states that twelve tons of Prairie Chickens were purchased at Cascade and vicinity a few days since by certain fowl speculators. It took twelve wagons to haul the birds to the railroad depot at Warren. The birds were packed in boxes without being plucked. As many as could be procured alive were […]
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 7, 1853
On the night of the 3rd, near Whitehall, New York, a freight train ran over a cow, throwing the engine and several cars off the track. The engineer was killed, and two cars, loaded with hogs, were thrown into the canal.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 9, 1853
New Granoda papers inform us that the first fatal accident occurred upon the Panama railroad on the 1st October, when a train with six hundred passengers was thrown off a bridge, at Taberelia, into a ravine sixteen feet deep, by running over an ox. Four men were killed, and several severely injured.
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Thursday, December 21, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 23, 1853
It is our privilege to know that we live in a Free country, but we apprehend, at the same time, that there are a few amongst us, who care not to understand what true freedom is, who hold law and order in such low estimation that, while they please themselves, are not at pains to […]
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