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Eagle Whips A man.

Then Resumes His Flight With a Stolen Lamb.  Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 04/17/1907.     Frederick Hollenbach, a farmer living on the Schoharie Ridge, near Saegersville, was feeding the gray squirrels in his woodland when an eagle flew past that had in its talons one of his lambs. The big bird had […]

Snakes.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 02/28/1907.      John Jeffers writes from Olustee, Okla., that they are having an unusually large crop of snakes in that country this year. John states that when driving across a quarter section near his home recently he had to stop three times and remove the reptiles from […]

Hunting With Ferret.

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 01/25/1906. Justice Van Deusen Places Heavy Fine on Two Evanston Men. This morning Edward Brown and James Palmer, two hunters from Evanston, were arraigned before Justice Van Deusen, charged with hunting rabbits with a ferret by deputy Sheriff Martin Lux. It cost each one $16.40. They paid.

Cat Catches Rattlesnake.

Brings it home alive by the nape of the neck.      Dr. McConnell of Tulsa, I. T., has the latest snake story. It is a true story and hasn’t any of the dream elements about it.      Dr. McConnell was sitting on the porch when he saw a cat coming up the lawn dragging a […]

Eagle Cut The Rope.

Hurled Down 600 Foot Cliff Man Who Stole Young.      Frank Schreiber of Colorado Springs, Colo., was recently badly injured as a result of a fight with a mother eagle whose young he stole from a nest on the side of a precipice 600 feet from the valley below.      Schreiber discovered the nest in […]

Made Noise Like A Bear.

Snoring Oskaloosan Slain by Hunters in His Sleep.      Richard Harding’s wife often complained that Richard snored “something dreadful,” but he outdid himself recently and got killed for doing it.      Richard had been sitting in the backroom of the village drug store at Oskaloosa, Ia., taking a few sips of something to cure his […]

Mayor Entagled in the Harness.

     Mayor Griffiths became entangled in the harness and the horse fell on him in the water, holding him under the water. Fire Chief Jacobs escaped the entanglement and swam out. He at once went for aid. The body of the mayor was found under the animal. The mayor’s body was brought to Springfield.

Japan Takes to Horse-Racing.

     Seventy-two horse-racing clubs have been organized in Japan. Most of them, the Japan Mail says, were established for gambling purposes only.

Paradise of Hunters.

Explorer Discovers it in Africa Where men Have Annihilated Each Other. Lion Reposes With Hartebeeste.      London, June 18.-Sir Harry Hamiton Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda protectorate, has returned to London after as absence of two years. He brings stories of uganda rivaling Henry M. Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.” Sir Harry relates that […]

Kicked by a Horse.

     Last Wednesday evening. Mr. John Melody was badly kicked in the mouth, by a horse at the stables of the City Hotel, by which his lips and chin were badly cut and four teeth knocked out.