Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    If Henry V. Rice, a boy of Miami county, Kan., had been an Indian, his fame and name would have been made now. He lately brought a large she-wolf to bay, and had no gun or other instrument of death, except his naked hands. The wolf sprang at him, and young Rice caught the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Recently, near Titusville, Pa., a hound was found lying exhausted in a field, and beside the dog was a dead fox. It was afterward discovered that the hound had followed the fox for nearly forty miles, from the vicinity of Harstown, Crawford county.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, November 23, 1875
    There is a cage containing four white mice at the Delta saloon, Virginia, which are quite a study. After seeing their maneuvers for an hour or two, one is not, at all surprised at the racket made by mice generally, for during the early part of the evening they take constant and violent exercise. […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 28, 1875
    At Hamburg, the keepers of the Zoo thought that it would be more economical to give the elephant a stone floor as the wooden one had to be replaced too often. One was laid, but the elephant would not lie down upon it to sleep. Something told him that if he did he could […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 28, 1875
    War horses when hit in battle, tremble in every muscle, and groan deeply, while their eyes show deep astonishment. During the battle of Waterloo, some of the horses, as they lay upon the ground, having recovered from the first agony of their wounds, fell to eating the grass about them, thus surrounding themselves with […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 11, 1858
    Four hundred alligators have been captured by a single hunter in the swamps near New Orleans, since the 1st of May.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 2, 1866
  The Reading [Pa.] Times has the following: “Bear’ Miller, an old hunter, 92 years of age, was in this city on Monday morning, having walked from Maidencreek, a distance of twelve miles. He is a resident of Huntingdon county. He wears a beard about a foot long and as white as snow. He has […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 27, 1856
    On Tuesday afternoon last, as the gravel train was backing towards Chicago, between Evanston and Winnetka, a cow suddenly jumped upon the track, close to the car, thereby throwing it off the track and piling the succeeding ones into a confused heap, tearing up several rails, and instantly killing Mr. A. M. Shedd, the […]
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 25, 1860
    The Sioux Indians, of Minnesota, have killed over 2,000 deer, 10,000 muskrat, and 3,000 otter, during the fall and winter.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 29, 1907
    Frank Robben of St. Louis had a dairy, but no cows. He was arrested with his two sons on the charge of stealing milk, and the younger boy confessed that every morning they went out and stole every bottle and can of milk they could find on the steps of residences, stores and restaurants. […]
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