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Baron Eaten By Wolves

  A bloody knife found in snow indicates he fought for his life.      Vienna, Jan. 19-While Baron Ottirhan, a Hungerian magnate, age seventy years, was riding on his estate in Transylvania, he was chased by hunger pinched wolves.      His horse became frenzied and threw the baron who was devoured by the wolves.      […]

Wolves Fight Funeral Party.

       While a number of settlers near Roseau, Minn. were burying a little girl  they were attacked by wolves, which severely bit several persons in attempts to get at the body.

Man Attacked For A Coon

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894.      Henry and Barney Chasteen, residing at Holman, Ind. went coon hunting. A coon ran up a tree and Henry climed the tree after him. He perched himself on a limb and was about to fire when the limb broke, precipitating him to […]

Eagle

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on May 21, 1881.      An eagle was shot in Lapland on the neck of which was a brass chain with a small tin-box attached. This box contained a slip of paper on which was written in Danish: “Caught and set free again in 1792 by N. and C. Anderson, […]

Terrier is Thief’s Aid

Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 1, 1922.      A burglar arrested at Hampstead had in his possession a cage of rats. The police said that his method was to open a window, turn in a rat, and then set his terrier after it. If there were wires or other burglar […]

How Chinese Catch Fish

Waukegan Daily Sun Published: March 25, 1898 The drug used by the Chinese in catching fish is Coculus indicus, which is powdered and mixed with dough and scattered broadcast over the water after the manner of sowing seed. The fish seize and devour it with avidity and instantly become intoxicated and turn up by hundreds […]

Puts Pack To Flight

  Minnesota man’s life saved by a match. Treed by wolves, He ignites coat of one of the animals by dropping light upon it and all flee to timber.      Hans Peterson, a farmer of Walworth county, Wis., conceived an original way of escaping from a pack of wolves that gave him chase and treed […]

The Waukegan Gazette

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on December 13, 1873.      They had a miracle near Belvidere last week. A sick man’s son went out and beat about the bush all afternoon to get a nice, tender partidge for him, and just as he reached the house at night; tired, faint and empty-handed and thinking how […]

Destructive Fire At Moline

Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 2, 1858      The village of Moline, on the Rock Island, R. R., was visited by a very destructive fire last week, making the second which has occured there within a month. The last fire destroyed about 25,000 worth of property, consisting of stores, offices, etc. Mr. Jacob […]

Horse Beats Off Wolves.

       Details of a ferocious attack of a pack of wolves upon Linley, the 12-year-old son of F. M. Bane, a tenant farmer living near the Kansas line, reached Mattoon the other day. Young Bane at dusk rode on horsrback to bring home the cows. As he passed a small grove fourteen grey wolves, […]