Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 5, 1899
    An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address writen in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a women’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s […]
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, January 26, 1890
An Experiment That Proved Entirely Too Successful. Â Â Florida Letter; When Capt. Royce, late of Ohio, made his home in Florida he found a fine alligator perserve in one corner of his plantation, and realized almost as much from the sale of hides as from his oranges. In crossing a small bayou one day he […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1890
A Massachusetts Sportsman Nearly Killed While Hunting in Maine. Â Â Â Â Boston, Mass., Jan.-19.-Alanson Haslam, a prominent Waltham sportsman, has just had a terrible experience with a buck which he attempted to kill in Northern Maine. The buck was a handsome specimen, about 3 years old. Haslam attempted to cut the animal’s throat after he had […]
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, December 23, 1877
Correspondence New York Post. Â Â Â Â The Hudson’s Bay Company, during the season just past, have made their shrewd and abundant preparations for a successful winter’s trade, and the coming spring, no doubt, will show a corresponding result in a more than average catch. Â Â Â Â The first in point of value is the pine marten, or […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Friday, May 23, 1879
    Lafayette [Ind.] Journal.     McDowall Cox, who lives about four miles from Lafayette, in Wabash Township, about two weeks ago lost a dog which he highly prized. The last that was seen of the animal was one day about that length of time ago, when he scared up some unknown creature and darted out […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 29, 1909
    While easily stalked, the rhinoceros is a dangerous customer, as most men will agree who have hunted him. If the rhinoceros gets one scent he almost invariably charges, often probably from sheer curiosity, but that does not make him any the easier to dispose of. Moreover, he runs and turns at a speed inconceivable […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 19, 1871
    Chafauqua Lake, N. Y., has lately been infested with a great plague of flies. For some days they have gathered around the shores at Mayville in such quanities as to darken the landscape. They are very short lived, and on one morning two and a half baskets of dead flies were swept from the […]
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 28, 1905
    One thousand head of sheep, the property of Lux & Miller of San Francisco, were shot in the Granite mining district of eastern Grant county, Oegon. Sheep owners had been warned to keep off certain mining property because of damage to the water supply and to forage the miners wanted for their horses. The […]
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    A Dublin woman was arrested for simply setting a bull-dog upon her husband, aged eighty years, while he was sick in bed, the animal injuring the man so badly that he wa not expected to live. It seems that a woman can’t have any fun at all over in that down-trodden country. There is […]
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
     A New Orleans gentleman tells the following curious anecdote. In Natchitoches parish, a pedestrian noticed on a lonely road a frog fighting desperately with a tarantula and the taratula returned the compliment by stinging the frog. Every time the frog got stung he would hop to the side of the road, where some green […]