Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 13, 1853
A number of whelps, the offspring of a lioness which died on the passage from India to England, have been given over to the maternal charge of a female terrier. The canine was deprived of her own young and the lions substituted. The strange family goes on most harmoniously.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 20, 1853
The incursions of bears and wolves into settled parts of Norway and Sweden, are described as having been frightful during the winter just passed. The bears come fearlessly into the villages and the smaller peasant settlements in Norway, break into the cattle enclosures, kill the oxen and cows and feast themselves whole nights through; while the wolves seem to have full sway down as far south as the 63 degree of latitude. All Scandinavia lies buried deep in snow, and the wild beasts driven to extremity, unite in bands and force their ways even to the midst of the towns and villages. A letter from Pitea, a port on the Gulf of Bothnia, dated February 12, states that in the parish Gillvara, in Swedish Lapland, an exceedingly severe and long continued snow storm prevailed during the latter half of January, more severe, indeed, than any experienced on the whole extent of the coast. During this storm Lapps employed in the transportation of ores were obliged to lie by five days, at the mine of Gillivara, it being impossible to travel. During this time, ten wolves paid a visit to a Lapp named Emmerson, and killed a hundred of his reindeer. Several similar instances of destruction by these animals are given as having occurred both in Sweden and in Norway.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
Vernon Baily, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by four wolves of which he got trace was a yearling cow or calf every three days, or approximately 100 head of cattle to each wolf. “Counting all as calves,” says Mr. Baily, at the low rate of $10 a head, each wolf would at this rate cost the ranch men $1,000 a year. This estimate of $4,000 for the four wolves leaves out of consideration the five to ten hungry offspring of each pair, which begin to kill stock for themselves in the fall and continue to do so as long as they live.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 29, 1910
Last week when a horse belonging to E. DeMeyer of North Chicago became seriously ill and began to cough and choke it was not known what was the matter with it and as fears for death were entertained a veterinary was called. The veterinary at once said that the animal had eaten something in the pasture that was doing the mischief and later it was found that a snake that the horse had swallowed had been objecting to the Jonah trip, which caused the illness.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 12, 1909
Express Wagon Driver and Street Car Conductor Battle in Wagon.
Chicago, May 12.-Fighting back and forth in an express wagon, which a runaway horse was dragging toward the open drawbridge, two men were saved from death through the heroic efforts of a city fireman.
The rescued men were Joseph Chouse, owner of the express wagon, and William Gannon, conductor of a North avenue electric car.
Chouse, it is said, had refused to turn out of the car tracks. Gannon ran forward and leaped on the wagon. Chouse attacked him, and as the men struggled the horse ran away.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, June 8, 1910
F. W. Dubbs, Farmer, is Found Dead in Tree of Fright.
Colt Kicks Another to Death and Horse Bites a Woman-Cow Knocks Woman Down-Rescued.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 8.-Perils of farm life are reported in dispatches from rural communities in this and neighboring states.
F. W. Dubbs, a farmer near Lisbon, O., had a battle with an infuriated bull. With one arm broken, he managed to climb into a tree. he was found later, with the bull pawing the ground beneath the tree and snorting with rage. After the animal was driven away it was found that Dubbs had died in the tree.
At Greenville, Pa., a pet horse bit off the index finger of Mrs. Jacob Uhler’s right hand while she was feeding it grass. Blood poisoning is feared.
Mrs. John W. Johnson of Willow Bend, W. Va., was trying to separate two fighting turkeys when a cow charged and knocked her down. She was trampled by the animal and injured before being rescued by farm hands.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 12, 1909
Sidewalks and Rails Covered and Trains are Delayed.
Gouverneur, N. Y., July 12.-In a heavy wind and rain storm thousands of small frogs fell, covering the sidewalks.
The rails of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdenburg division of the New York Central railroad for half a mile were buried and trains delayed.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
A recent writer in the Field newspaper gives the dimensions of an old Indian elephant, which would scarcely have been much inferior in size to a mastadon. According to his account the animal measured 11 and three-quarters feet in height at the shoulders, 25 feet 5 inches from the tip of the trunk to the end of the tail. The distance from the tip of the trunk to one eye was 7 feet; from one eye to the tail nearly 13 and one-half feet, and the tail was 4 and one-half feet in length. The tusks were 5 feet 2 inches long.-Harper’s Monthly Magazine.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
Two-Months-Old Child Seriously Hurt by Chicken that Invades House.
Mount Vernon, Illinois July 1.-The two-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. Potts, living at Thacher’s Gap, southeast of this city, was injured by a hen that pecked out its right eye.
The child was playing on the floor and the hen wandered into the house and was attracted by the little one and deliberately pecked its face and eye until one eye was destroyed. The mother, attracted by the cries of the child drove the hen away.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, January 14, 1910
At the conclusion of a children’s performance at Old Meldrum an elephant proceeded along a narrow road with a pail in its trunk for the purpose of procuring water from a pump. A little girl chanced to get in the animal’s way, and the road being only wide enough to accommodate his substantial body, the elephant laid down the pail, picked up the child with his trunk and gently lifted her to a place of safety, afterward resuming his journey to the pump for the water.-Westminster Gazette.