Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1876
    There are few persons familar with Waukegan but will remember the little sorrel horse so long owned by Geo. Kirk, Esq., and all of these will regret to learn that he is dead. The horse was purchased by Mr. kirk, from Mr. Locke, of Libertyville, in 1856, and was then four years old. For […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 17, 1876
    Arthur Regan, eight years old, of Karns City, rode a horse into a creek of water. The horse stepped into a deep hole, when the boy fell off and would have been drowned had not the animal seized him by the back and carried him to the bank. The mark of the horse’s teeth […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 26, 1876
Howe’s circus was showing at Indianola when the storm of the fourth came on, and because of injury to the railroads was compelled to remain there until the track was temporarily repaired. Then the circus started for their next place of exhibition. When about eight miles out one corner of a bridge gave way, and […]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 25, 1876
The Havana Journal says: We recently heard of a good joke perpetrated by a Chemung county farmer, a member of the Elmira Farmers’ Club. He had been bothered greatly by hunters from the city, who had entered his woods with a perfect abandon and slaughtered the squirrels in great numbers. One day he procured two […]
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1876
The police at the foot of Hammond street, New York city, recently rescued a horse from the water, concerning which there is a remarkable history. Nobody at first knew anything of the animal or its owner, but the next day a claimant appeared who stated that he was the owner, and that the horse had […]
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 1, 1872
From the Detroit Free Press, July 29. Captain maddock, living on Rivard street, while Captain of the schooner D. L. Couch, four years ago, and then living at New Baltimore, took with him on a trip to Buffalo a Newfoundland dog named “Neptune.” Lying alongside another vessel one night at Buffalo his dog was stolen. […]
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, September 11, 1870
Stories of elephantine intelligence are numerous, but most of them too well known to repeat here. One, however, recorded by a traveler, in a paper contributed to a scientific journal, and which is vouched for from personal knowledge, is worth a brief notice. The author was on a journey, and several elephants were engaged to […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, September 11, 1870
We cannot just now call to mind where we met, long ago, with a very amusing example of memory in a horse-the charger of the commanding officer of an Indian regiment. He was an exceedingly large and heavy man, and the horse having a dislike to carrying such a burden, acquired the habit of lying […]
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 23, 1870
A lady at Beloit, Wisconsin, a few days since, found in the nest of a sitting hen four kittens who had not got their eyes open.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, May 16, 1901
How Chance Agencies Convey Stray Brutes From One Locality to Another. The manner in which animals may be conveyed from one area or region to another by what may be called chance agencies, has always formed a subject of much interest in the eyes of naturalists. The same opinions may be expressed of the dispersal […]