Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 7, 1901
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/07/ 1901. Â Â Â Â John Rhodes, an old recluse, who lived in a lonely hut in the southern part of Washington County, was found dead. There were evidences of foul play and the coroner and a number of citizens made as examination of the cabin, which resulted […]
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Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 1, 1880
     A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewing the many good works done by the English for the people of India, notes among other things, the almost total extermination of wild animals in that country.     As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew closer together toward the centre of a district, he […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1905
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 1905/06/09. Gigantic Snake Injures Baby Girl Near Kewanee. Â Â Â Â When Mrs. F. H. Dunn, living at the eastern part of Elmira township, ten miles southeast of Kewanee, began her housework the other morning she left her infant daughter on a piece of carpet on the porch. […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 23, 1905
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on June 23, 1905. Fierce Combat Takes Place In Ohio Schoolhouse. Boy finds five blacksnakes in water pail and summons help to dispatch them. Â Â Â Â Two women and a 10-year-old boy had a ferocious battle with five monster blacksnakes at the Smith Chapel school house near Logan, […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 22, 1881
Pulished in The Waukegan Gazette on October 22, 1881. Â Â Â Â A little son of Abraham May, of Miller Township, Blair County, Pa. was bitten by a copperhead snake a few days since. After biting, the reptile kept fastening and coiling around the lad’s legs, and it was only torn from its coil by the brave […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1857
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 3, 1857. Â Â Â Â A man named Wirsen, a swede, who has recently been exhibiting a number of rattlesnakes in various parts of California, and who fancied he had acquired a power over them which would prevent them from biting him, was severely bitten by one of them upon […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Tuesday, January 17, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on January 17, 1922. Â Â Â Â In a combat between a diamond rattlesnake and a blue racer, the latter was victorious over his more virulent adversary. During the fight, reports a writer in Science, the racer was badly bitten by the rattler; whereupon the former worked his way […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 14, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on September 14, 1894. Â Â Â Â A frightful duel with knives was fought by two prominent farmers, Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy, near Polkville, Ky. Murphy’s hogs broke into Osborn’s cornfield, and this caused the trouble. The two cut and slashed each other in a frightful manner, and […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, September 17, 1897
Published in The Waukegan Daily-Sun on September 17, 1897. Â Â Â Â A desperate fight between a horse and a boar, which resulted in the death of both animals, is reported from the county line eighteen miles north of Warsaw, Ind. The animals were on the farm of Arthur Munson and got together in a field, when […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 25, 1895
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on January 25, 1895. Â Â Â Â While passing through a hog lot the 5-year-old daughter of John Parham, of Homer, was attacked by the vicious animals and was thrown down to the ground. But for the timely arrival of her mother she would have been killed.
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