Saturday, October 11, 2014
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 26, 1902
Angered by Brilliant Sweaters, Animal Pursues College Boys. The Dickinson College football team of Carlisle, Pa., had an encounter with a mad bull which gave the boys the chase of their lives. The team started on a cross country run and a few miles above Carlisle jumped over a fence into a pasture that contained […]
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 12, 1898
How a Well Known Ravine in Texas Got it’s Name. A Herd of 15,000 Cattle Stampeded at Night and Before They Were Stopped 2,700 of Them Were Killed-Costly Blunder Made by a Cowboy. One of the most desperate stampedes of cattle ever witnessed by a Texas cowboy, says Rev. J. B. Cranfill of Waco, Texas, […]
Friday, September 12, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, August 18, 1897
Cincinnati Mourners Get Into a Cattle Stampede. While the funeral procession which was taking the remains of John Mulvihill to the grave was passing Sycamore and Church streets, Cincinnati, O., the other morning a drove of steers passed. Several animals got into a fierce fight and ran into the carriages. One carriage contained Policeman John […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 8, 1897
Wichita, Kan., June 22.-The famous steer Jumbo, which had attained the enormous weight of 5,000 pounds and was still growing, was killed Monday. Jumbo was four years old, and measured eight feet tall and twelve feet long. He had massive horns, 13 inches in circumference’ and six feet across, with perfect curves. Mr. Payne decided […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 20, 1908
Chicago, Aug. 20.-Like the heroic Ursus, who wrestled with a bull in the arena, John Maffey clung to the horns of a maddened steer which had escaped from the stockyards while children and other pedestrians fled to safety. For fifteen minutes Maffey kept up his battle with the animal, and was about to fall exhausted […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Cattle Sought in Pines of Wexford Chase Their Pursuers. Cadillac, Mich., Aug. 5.-Wild cattle made so by years of roving in the pine slashings north of this city, made a rush on Bert Gardner, Albert Rupers and Charles Gipe and would have gored them to death had not they been able to shin up some […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, May 26, 1854
J. N. Brown, of Island Grove, has now a “calf as is a calf.” He is a full blood short horn Durham. On the 8th of April, when four months and 28 days old, he weighed 556 pounds. On the 6th of May he weighed 640 pounds. On the 15th of May, when just six […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Published in the The American Weekly Mercury, Philadelphia, Penn. on Saturday, March 28, 1722
By advice from Somerfet County, Maryland, we have the following relation, that on the 23rd and 24th of February last there was a great storm of wind and rain. This caused the meadows to overflow and drown several hundred cattle [some say about 1,000 head.] Several storehouses were washed away by the sea, and most […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, September 21, 1855
A collision occurred on the New York Central road, on yesterday between a passenger and cattle train by which the engineer and brakeman of the passenger train were killed, and several others injured. A large number of cattle were killed or maimed.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, November 8, 1855
This morning a steer broke loose at Tinsley’s slaughter house, and started for the city at railroad speed, scattering the boys, frightening the girls, and upsetting shanghais without ceremony. John Wheelan “took a horn,” which broke his collar bone, and bruised him otherwise; and John Rouke becoming exalted from the same cause, saw stars at […]