Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 22, 1868
    Twenty-five citizens of Hillsboro, went fox hunting a few days ago, and returned with the glorious trophies of the chase-viz, thirty-five foxes and lots of fun.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, March 22, 1922
    Algonac, Mich., March 22.-Hours of torture, in which Mrs. Joseph Sears, 72 year old trapper, struggled against a muskrat trap which held her in two feet of mud and water were revealed with the finding of the woman’s body in the flats here. One of her own traps had snared her, and a boat, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 17, 1872
    The Waterville [Kansas] Telegraph tells a terrible tale of suffering concerning Mr. F. M. Brower, the survivor of a party of buffalo hunters frozen to death in Phillips county, in November last. Mr. Brower was badly frozen on the morning of Sunday, November 17. His four companions went for help, and all were frozen […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 20, 1917
Wounded Animal Gives Battle Royal to Huntsman When He is Poked in the Eye. Â Â Â Â An exciting story is told of a party who went buffalo shooting in Zuzuland recently. During the course of the holiday a buffalo was shot early one morning. The party saw the animal drop, and as it did not move, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 11, 1875
    A Missouri farmer, after a long calculation, presents the following facts concerning dogs:-In thirty-two counties 10,602 sheep have been killed by dogs. He estimates the number of dogs in these thirty-two counties to be 462,000; that a hog will thrive on the food necessary to support an able-bodied dog, and at the end of […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 15, 1912
Shown its Casualties Are Larger Than Those of Bull Fighting. Â Â Â Â New York, April 15,-In an effort to show that football is a more brutal and deadly sport than bull fighting a statistician has compiled a table showing the total casualties in Spain from bull fighting during 1911. There were 872 bull fights, attended by […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 24, 1901
Cattle and Horses Do Not Get Frightened in Rough Weather. Â Â Â Â Do the horses and cattle get frightened and make much disturbance in rough weather? asked the writer of a New York dealer who ships cattle abroad. Â Â Â Â “Bless you, no; They’ve got sea legs that would put an old salt to shame. Occasionally a […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 16, 1877
    Mr. Dodge, the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, reports, as the results of an investigation of the losses from diseases of swine during the past twelve months, the destrution of 4,000,000 animals of all ages, and a money loss of more than $20,000,000. One-fifth of the reported loss occurs in the […]
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Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 12, 1864
    The army correspondent of the Herald writes an account of the famous horse raid within the lines and without riders. He says:     Near Bermuda Hundred there is a large corral, where all the disabled and worn out horses-brought here by Gen. Sheridan after his famous raid-are confined. The poor beasts have apparently but […]
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Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Saturday, January 24, 1857
A very remarkable case of the effects of fright upon a horse occured at Franklin a short time since. A horse belonging to Mr. Joseph Palmer, was grazing in the yard near the fence, when the elephants belonging to the menagerie recently in this city, were passing along. The horse did not observe them till […]