Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 27, 1878
Seventy-five Turtles Clawing and Chawing Each Other for an Hour. Â Â Â Â The seventy-five turtles in the fountain basin near the Fourth avenue entrance to Gilmore’s Garden, had a battle yesterday morning. Such was never seen before. At least seventy-five lay together in an apparently inextricable mass on the bottom of the basin. Two dead turtles […]
Sappho Turtle, Jailed for “No Soup” 12 Years Ago, Found Under City Scales. Soup For Firemen. Â Â Â Â Police records from the dim ages past, dim because they are 12 years old, were exhumed today in the search for the history of Sappho, the snapping turtle that was dug out of the mud underneath the old […]
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1905
    William Bullar, 19 years old, son of C. C. Bullar, a prominent stone contractor and builder of Murphysboro, was perhaps fatally injured by a team of young mules. He had gone onto the stable to feed the animals, when he was struck down and viciously attacked. His skull was crushed and his body terribly […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 30, 1874
    We can tell you an anecdote about the condor’s power of life. A miner in Chili, a very strong man, once saw a condor enjoying his feast on the mountains. He had eaten so much that he could not fly, and the man attacked and tried to kill him. The battle lasted a long […]
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 14, 1898
Two Men Killed and Many Injured in a Missouri Railroad Disaster. Â Â Â Â A cow derailed the north-bound Texas special on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, part of the Missouri Pacific system, at Hermatite, thirty-six miles south of St. Louis, resulting in the death of the engineer and fireman and a slight injury […]
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1880
    On Sundat last, Mr. N. J. Ostrander, of this city, met with a serious mishap. He has been employed by Hon. Wm. B. Dodge this winter and has assisted in the care of the large stock of Shorthorn owned by that gentleman. On the day in question he was trying up some cattle in […]
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 21, 1881
    A Texas steer escaped from a car in St. Louis, last Wednesday, and for three hours made it lively for people on some of the main business streets. Several persons were injured but none fatally. Fully one hundred shots were fired at him by policemen and others, twenty of which took effect, before he […]
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Wednesday, July 28, 1909
    ‘Fox” Boyes, a small white fox terrier, made a rat killing record for himself at the Insull farm recently where the firm of Boves & Sanborn are building a new barn. The old barn on what was formerly known as the Davison farm was being torn down to be replaced by a new one […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 26, 1916
    Aurora, Ill., April 25.-A bull, enraged at the sight of a red necktie worn by John Phail of Geneva, chased the man and gored him to death as he tried to climb a fence. The bull’s horns pierced Phail’s lungs. The animal trampled the man after he had fallen to the ground. Phail’s cries […]
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1910
    The prize winning team belonging to Swift & Company was rescued and 100 other horses met death Saturday night when the walls of the north end of the stables at forty-first and Laflin streets collapsed. There were 250 horses in the stables. Edward F. Swift and his brother, Chas. H. Swift, were among the […]
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