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Hog Causes Double Crime.

Published in The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on November 13, 1903. Makes Farmer Angry And He Shoots His Wife And Himself.      Calvin E. Wade, a prominent farmer of Chenango County, N. Y.. shot and fatally wounded his wife and then killed himself. He had been vainly trying to drive a hog through […]

Hog Caused His Death.

Published in The Lake County Independent on November 26, 1897.      At Milan, Mo., Thomas Epperson of Lancaster, while attemping to load hogs, was bitten through the thigh, severing an artery. He bled to death in thirty minutes.

A Wife For Seven Pigs.

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on November 3, 1922.      Wives in New Guinea have a miserable time. It is true they have a high value-sometimes as many as seven pigs are paid for a wife. But the wives are badly treated and often are killed for minor offenses. Yet, strange to […]

Street Travel

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on June 22, 1879 Dangers to Life and Limb incident to the Highway. Proportionately More Killed and Wounded than on Railroads. In Seven Weeks 59 Runaways, 44 Persons Injured, and five Killed.      Few people have any conception of the infinite risk and danger to which are subject from […]

Wolves Invade A Big City

  Residents of Minneapolis driven to trees by the animals.      Timber Wolves are causing a reign of terror in the northeastern portion of Minneapolis, where several of the brutes have been killed during the last few days. The animals have been driven in from the outlaying districts by hunger and several persons out late […]

Bald Eagle

Published on February 22, 1901 in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois.      A bald eagle tried to carry off the 5-year-old boy of John Bullock, living in Illinois opposite Mount Vernon, Ind. The child was in the yard playing when attacked by the eagle. The mother heard the child’s scream and ran from the house and […]

Hunting

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on March 13, 1880.      A Georgia man fired seven shots at a wild cat, killed his dog, wounded a farmer in the leg, and put out one of his own eyes out. The wild cat escaped.

Elephant

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on July 25, 1885.      Barnam’s elephant, Albert, which killed his keeper last Saturday, was taken to the Keene, N. H., suburbs Monday afternoon and shot, thirty-three members of a militia company firing at the beast at the same time. The remains will be sent to the Smithsonian institution at […]

Kill Cows; Carry Away Dog

Published on August 26, 1904 in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois.      Three eagles attacked and killed a cow belonging to Aaron Whitsoh of Garden City, Kan. They also picked up and carried about twenty-five yards a dog that weighed thirty-five pounds.

Wolf Whips a Pack of Hounds

       Details of a thrilling fight in which an enormous timber wolf vanquished a pack of eighteen hounds has reached Mattoon. It occured on the Cizemore farm, near Marley, and was witnessed by Siebert Scott, William Creech and Mark Davidson, who were at work in a sugar camp. They saw the wolf running, followed […]