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Big Hailstones Kill Cows.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/26/1903.      A hailstorm covering a strip of land a mile and a quarter in width passed over eastern Allen County, Ind., for a distance of three miles and covering New Haven. In places the hail fell to a depth of two inches and crops are […]

Two Condemned To Death.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/22/1903. Murderers Who Threw Victim’s Body To Hogs Are Sentenced.      Jerry Graves and “Cal” Prince, charged with the murder of Mrs. Nellie Reicheldorfer on the 16th of March last, were found guilty by the jury at Marion, after less than an hour’s deliberation. The death […]

Twelve Die In Bull Fight.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/22/1903.      A special dispatch from Madrid announces that in a bull fight at Algeciras the amphitheater collapsed and twelve persons were killed and fifty injured. Several women and children were gored by the bulls.

Eats Pie Made For Rats.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 10/30/1903. Charles Wyngate of Farmington Is Killed By Strychnine.      Charles Wyngate of Farmington, aged 60 years is dead from poisoning by strychine. Mrs. Wyngate, who has been much troubled by rats, made two pies the other day. One of these she prepared for table use; […]

Battles With A Bull.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903. Armed with a pitchfork a farmer’s wife holds animal at bay.      Armed with a pitchfork, Mrs. James Morton, a farmer’s plucky wife, living near Flanders, N. J., for nearly an hour kept at bay a vicious bull that had attacked and nearly killed her […]

Dies From A Cats Bite.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 5/1/1903. Mrs. Maria Parr of South Bartonville died at the Cotage hospital in Peoria as the result of a cat’s bite. Two weeks before her pet lacerated her hand while at play. She immediately was seized with hysteria and at the end of four days acute […]

The Diseases Of Wild Animals

  The Diseases Of Wild Animals. While First Surgeon of the thirty-first Regiment of the line, then stationed at Alabers, in Algeria. I dissected the carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of them were affected; one half of them were almost gone, showing that consumption [tuberculosis] is prevalent among the lions of […]

An African and a Boa Constrictor.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/03/1909.      At M’eta, German East Africa, a native who, like all those belonging to the tribe of the Waluguru, regarded snake flesh as a special delicacy found a huge boa constrictor lying in the middle of a field. He confided the discovery to one or […]

Victim Of Snakes He Hunted.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/14/1913.      After destroying upwards of 2,000 vipers in the course of his career as a snake hunter, M. Henry Saussereau died recently, in Paris, from the bite of a snake. He was hunting snakes in the woods near Bouloire {Sarthe}, when a viper bit him […]

Fatal Snakes and Beasts in India.

       Wild animals and snakes in India seem to kill more human beings than all our punitive expeditions taken together. The statistics of the loss of  human life and cattle by wild animals and venomous snakes in the Central provinces of India have been issued. Although the totals show some decrease from last year, […]