Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, January 29, 1817
About two weeks since the wife of Mr. John Cobb, of Providence in this county, observed a wolf following some sheep directly towards the house in which they lived; and as her husband was absent from home, she immediately took down the rifle and approached the wolf, who stopped as she advanced. She levelled the […]
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Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, December 23, 1818
Captain Hawkins, of the Ever horpe, of Hull, while at the Davis’s Straits fishery, being engaged with a boat’s crew in attempting to kill a bear in the water, the enraged animal made a snatch at captain H. and seizing him by the thigh dragged him out of the boat, and immediately made off with […]
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Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 18, 1818
The natives frequently amuse themselves by a curious kind of warfare, which is created by shutting up a scorpion and a rat together in a close cage, when a terrible contest ensues. Â This has been seen to continue sometimes for above an hour: it generally ends in by the death of the scorpion; but in […]
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Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 25, 1897
Mexico’s Wild Hogs, or Peccary, Run From Nothing Under the Sun. Â Â Â Â The most vicious and fearless of the brute creation is the peccary or wild hog of Mexico. This animal seems utterly devoid of the emotion of fear. I have never seen it turn a hair’s breadth out of its path for any living […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Monday, March 28, 1898
     George Griesbaum, a farmer near Mascoutah, was attacked by a vicious hog at his home, and sustained injuries that caused his death a short time later. He was 70 years of age, and had resided in the vicinity for half a century.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 24, 1908
    Mattoon, Ill., Sept.-As the result of a family feud, which had been running for twelve years, “Couch” Harwood shot and probably fatally wounded his brother Jeff Harwood, during a quarrel over some hogs at the home of the former, southeast of this city. The would-be murderer was placed in jail in default of $5,000 […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 24, 1899
Nervy Illinoisan Submits to the Knife Without an Anacathetic. Â Â Â Â Wallrath Mochle, a Belleville blacksmith, has lost his right leg as the result, primarily, of a hog bite three years ago. Moehle is 55 years old. Three years ago while hunting he crossed a field and as he was climbing over a fence in the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1901
An Intelligent, Large-Limbed and a Fleet-Footed Animal. Â Â Â Â The “Florida razorback” is the hog indigenous to this climate and soil. He is usually large and fleet of foot, being the only known porker that can outrun a darky. He has a tail of wondrous length, which, while he is in active motion, he twists into […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 30, 1913
    Adrian, Mich., June 30.-Doctors fear inturnal injuries may have been sustained by Alvin Porter, of Ogden, when a bull attacked him in the field and trampled upon him. Three ribs were crushed in. Portor went to disentangle the animal from a wire fence.
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 12, 1897
    A large catamount entered a barnyard belonging to D. J. Parish, one mile north of Baldwin, Fla., recently, and in attempting to catch a pig was killed outright by the mother hog. This seems incredible, but it is the truth, nevertheless. The razerback proved to be somewhat of a razor front to the ferocious […]