Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 1, 1885
An Ohio Farmer Attacked by Them and Overpowered. Â Â Â Â Dayton, Ohio, July 29.-Mr. Isaiah Burncrat, a farmer living near Chambersburg, a small country village a few miles from here, had a most wonderful experience Tuesday, narrowly escaping being killed by ants. He was picking blackberries in a wild patch in a dense wood, when suddenly […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 12, 1885
[Chicago Journal] Â Â Â Â Capt. Lloyd has been traveling in Scandinavia, where wolves are abundant. The animals are very fond of pork, and his plan of enticing them in order to shoot them was th keep a live pig in his sledge, and to pinch him in the night-time. In order further to deceive the wolves, […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1907
Mail Carrier Seriously Injured by Terriffied Team-Horses upset Mail Wagon and break Carrier’s Ribs and Collar Bone. Â Â Â Â Lake Villa was the scene of a thrilling runaway last week and as a result Earnest Shepardson, the rural mail carrier for that village is in a critical condition at his home, with three ribs broken and […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 16, 1886
    Reading, Pa., Jan. 14.-While Cyrus P. Miller, a leading lawyer of Lebanon, was riding in a sleigh through the streets of that city Tuesday, the horse drew up in front of a bank at which Mr. Miller was accustomed to stop. It was then discovered that he was dead, though the corpse sat upright […]
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Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 2, 1873
From the Kansas Magazine.     Appearances indicated that this shaggy old fellow had been making a very good fight of it for several days. I dare say that in the maintenance of his social status he had gone back into the herd and stared at his descendants, and pawed and groaned, as much as fifty times. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 7, 1880
    A curious incident of the whole of the occupants of a small fish pond being destroyed by a flash of lightning is reported from Seck, Grand Duchy of Nassau. The Nassauer Bote states that during a very heavy thunder and hail storm at night a flash of lightning struck a small pond, well stocked […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 24, 1880
    When John Thompson of Middlebury, Vt., returned to his filthy hovel after a prolonged spree, his eight dogs almost starved, attacked him. It became necessary to kill all the dogs before he could be rescued, and then he was torn from head to feet.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1875
    The latest dispatches from the West are full of encouragement, the heavy rain storms having destroyed millions of the young grasshoppers. The Missouri river is said to be fairly black with them, and on the uplands millions of them are lying dead, having been totally destroyed by the heavy rains on Wednesday and Thursday.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 1, 1881
    Iowa hall can boast of a dog that out Tanners Tanner, having lived forty-two days without food or water. On the 16th day of September the animal owned by Mrs. Armstrong, of Bird’s Flat, disappeared from its home. They marveled much at his prolonged absence and, after futile inquiries and search, concluded that it […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    George Jenkins, of Barbour county, Alabama, killed a rattlesnake which weighed forty-two pounds, and had fourteen rattles.
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