Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1904
Elgin Man Dies from Blow Received in Fight with a Neighbor. Â Â Â Â Fred Harchen is dead in St. Joseph’s hospital, Elgin, as the result of a blow on the head inflicked by Charles Clarkson in a dispute over some ducks which had wandered from the land of the latter upon that owned by the former. […]
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 1, 1914
Henry Perry of Grayslake Was the Victim of Unusual Accident on Saturday. Rushed Here To Hospital. Is Given Large Doses of Antitentanic Serum to Prevent Getting Lock-Jaw. Â Â Â Â Henry “Mac” Perry, 37 years old, a well known resident of Grayslake, was attacked and painfully injured by a vicious stallion on Saturday. Had it not been […]
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 21, 1905
    More than 2,000 persons and four passenger trains on the Colorado Midland railroad were held in tunnel No. 6, two miles west of Manitou, by a fierce South American Jaguar. Before he was captured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe gash across his right leg. Miss Delmont, a passenger […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 14, 1899
Frank Fisher, Keeper of Rajah, is the Animal’s Sixth Victim. Â Â Â Â Frank Fisher, keeper of the big elephant Rajah, was killed by his charge at the winter quarters of Lemen Bros. circus in Argentine, Kas. The keeper, becoming angry at the elephant, struck him fiercely with a “hook.” The huge beast promptly turned on him, […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 25, 1914
Rest is Broken Nights by Barking of Dogs at Night Who Are Hunting Rats. Must Exterminate One. Have About Decided That it Would be Most Satisfactory to Kill the Rodents. Â Â Â Â If all other means fail residents of Chestnut street may open a systematic campaign of extermination against the rodents who infest the ruins of […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 22, 1865
    A traveler gives the following anecdote of a tiger kept at the British Residency at Calcutta; “But what annoyed him far more than our poking him with a stick, or tantalizing him with shins of beef or legs of mutton, was a mouse introduced into his cage. No fine lady ever exhibited more terror […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 11, 1902
   At the zoological gardens at Perth, Western Australia, there recently took place a fearful battle between a lioness and a tiger. An eyewitness says the scene was terrifying.     Seizing the lioness by the throat, the tiger’s teeth tore threw the flesh, severing the windpipe and lacerating the neck frightfully. He dragged her round the cage […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 6, 1875
A Leopard Kills a Black Panther and Partially Devours It. Â Â Â Â Two lions, two leopards, and a black panther have for some months been kept in one cage in Barnum’s Hippodrome. The lions are separated from their companions through the night by iron bars, but in the day time the bars are withdrawn, and the […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 15, 1899
    Plucky Act of Miss Myrtle McAteer at Pittsburg, Pa.     Miss Myrtle McAteer, the tennis player, choked a mad dog to death. The dog was bounding along the street and everyone was making way for it as Miss McAteer came out of the gate at her home at West and Hill streets, Pittsburg. Instead […]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1904
    William B. Sullivan was killed in Marengo by being thrown against a telephone pole when his horses were running away. He was the father of nineteen children, seventeen of whom are living. He was 57 years old.
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