, Sangamo Journal on Sunday, April 6, 2025
A freight train of the N. Y. and Erie railroad left Dunkirk the other day over three-hundred feet long and containing two-thousand seven-hundred and ninety-seven head of livestock, consisting of beeves, sheep and hogs, valued at $15,000. It was drawn by one locomotive.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, November 5, 1850
There are 1,000 cattle slaughtered daily at the packing houses in Chicago. The color of the waters of the Chicago River is materially changed and corrupted by the offal thrown into the river.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 2, 1851
A San Francisco paper says that an immigrant, just arrived across the plains, gives the following description of a memorable journey of which many thousands of animals and so many persons of last years emigration perished. “If there is a section of country in Gods wide extended creation that can surpass that large scope of […]
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 18, 1852
It is stated in English papers that pauperism is decreasing throughout Ireland-the result of emigration-and that business seems to be improving. It is stated that 100,000 head of sheep and cattle have been purchased at the great Scottish fairs, to be sent to Ireland.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 16, 1901
William Hess, a wealthy citizen of Evansville, Ind. was in police court on the charge of cruelty to animals. His neighbor has a calf and the other night Hess could not sleep for the calf’s bawling, so he tied the mouth up with a rope. The judge released Hess, saying he believed he would have […]
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, September 4, 1738
We are told that 300,000 Souls have perished in this storm; but believe the number is exaggerated; a prodigious Quantity of Cattle of all sorts, a great many Tigers in the lower Ganges, and several Rhinoceros were drowned, even a great many Caymans, Amphibious Animals, were killed by the furious agitation of the waters, and […]
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 19, 1738
They write from Lee in Kent, England that all the cattle and horses belonging to Mr. Smith of that town, has had the misfortune to be bit by a mad dog and have been drove down to the sea and into the water to prevent if possible, the ill effects of the bite.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 20, 1911
Chicago Firemen Escape Blaze Which is Fatal to One. Chicago, March 20.-One man was killed and 300 head of cattle were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a square block of the huge network of pens in the Union Stock Yards here. The body of the man trapped by the flames was found […]
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 25, 1902
Near Tulsa, I. T., a Creek Indian boy, Charles Mingo, was found dead, securely fixed on the horns of a wild Texas steer. When found the steer was trying to dislodge the boy by rubbing against the banks of a small ravine.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 1, 1902
Twenty-eight Animals of a Large Herd Fall in Electrical Storm. During an electrical storm which passed through Plainfield twenty-eight head of cattle were killed by lightning. They were in a wooded pasture one and one-half miles south of town, and were owned by the George brothers, farmers in the vicinity, who had seventy cattle in […]