Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, January 19, 1910
 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.     […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 7, 1900
     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.
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on December 21, 1894. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, May 21, 1881
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on May 21, 1881. Â Â Â Â 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, […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on Wednesday, February 1, 1922
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on February 1, 1922. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun on Friday, March 25, 1898
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 […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent Register, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 17, 1905
 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 […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, December 13, 1873
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on December 13, 1873. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Gazette on Saturday, January 2, 1858
Published in The Waukegan Gazette on January 2, 1858 Â Â Â Â 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 […]
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Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 1, 1901
     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, […]