Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, May 11, 1878
    A remarkable wolf-story is that told by Mr. Christ Pahl, of Buffalo Township. He brought a wolf’s skull into the country Auditor’s office, and said he had prepared it for the zoological cabinet in the Academy. He stated that the wolf was captured when a cub, had been raised at his house with a […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, December 18, 1879
     In the district of Waldat, Russia, wolves are making great ravages this year, and it is feared that the losses of the peasants will surpass those of 1878. The bill of slaughter for this year alone in the above district includes 276 horses, 851 colts, 1,653 sheep, 237 cows, 740 calves, and 295 […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 22, 1901
     After a fight with a wolf driven by the pangs of hunger within the city limits of Galesburg, Fred Meadows, aged 14 years, succeeded in killing the animal with a 22-caliber rifle and his dog. The boy was hunting sparrows. The wolf came out of a cornfield and made for the lad with […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 20, 1909
     Simon Helms, farmer, near Elkinsville, fourteen miles south of here, battled for almost an hour with a pack of wolves, which killed several sheep, raided a chicken coop and drove Helms family into the house after they had been severely injured by the enraged animals, which were finally driven off.     Last winter […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, October 31, 1874
     A child was recently killed by a wolf at LaRochette, France. A girl named Marie Favand, aged 10, was on the border of a wood picking up acorns, when the animal suddenly appeared, and seizing her by the neck, crushed her head between its jaws. On her crying out a workman named Texier […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 2, 1875
 The Latest Hydrophobia Horror Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune     Lincoln Neb., July 1-Reports from the buffalo lands, in the western part of the state, report numerous wolves suffering from hydrophobia, making it dangerous for hunters. A young man named Ackerly, while sleeping on the prairie recently, was bitten on the nose by […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, April 9, 1877
     Three young girls were minding a flock of sheep a few weeks ago at Vergt [Doudognel], when a large wolf suddenly appeared, and, separating some of the sheep, drove them before it. The cries of the girls irritated it, and passing near one of them, Marie S., it flew at her, knocked her […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, September 12, 1876
 London Daily News     Russia is still a good deal behind the rest of Europe in the matter of wolves. These animals, whose heads used to be a source of income to the borders of Wales, and of which the last were slain in Scotland by Cameron of Lochiel, make a considable figure in […]
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 13, 1881
 A Wisconsin Farmer Kills Seven Wolves After A Terrible Struggle.     Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.     Waupaca, Wis., Aug. 12,-Report comes from the town of Dayton of a terrible encounter of a man with seven wolves. He is a farmer, and owns a large herd of sheep. He went out to drive […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 26, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/26/1903. Lion named Roosevelt Fatally Wounded At Springfield Carnival. Â Â Â Â A desperate battle among a cage full of lions and tigers was an unexpected feature of the animal show given in connection with the Gaskill Munday Carnival Company’s shows in Springfield. After a terrible fight, witnessed […]