Saturday, November 9, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 10, 1920
Havana.-Hundreds of fine steers stampeded on board the American steamer St. Charles outside Havana harbor Saturday afternoon, and after creating a panic on board the ship, plunged into the sea, where they became the prey of the sharks which infest the waters off Merro Castle. Except for a comparative few that swam ashore and now […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 17, 1899
Kankakee, Ill., Jan. 17.-Twenty-eight head of cattle and 18 horses were burned Sunday night with the barn of T. J. Clark, two miles west of here. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 4, 1859
The express train on the New Albany $ Salem road ran into a drove of Cattle near Reynold’s station, in Indiana, throwing the engine bottom up into the ditch, but not until it had made mince meat of 14 of the bovines. Fortunately no person was injured by the accident.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, December 3, 1836
From the Claremont [N. H.] Eagle. There is not a cow, we believe, in this county, of the same age that will begin to compare in size with the one in this town, belonging to Mr. Luther E. Stevens. She is only five years old, and upon being driven into the village last week, weighed […]
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 12, 1902
Steamer Norseman is carrying 1,170 cattle and 1,398 sheep from Portland, Me., to Liverpool, the largest shipment ever taken across the Atlantic.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    Capt. Kennedy, a resident of Nucees county, Texas, owns a tract of land containing 350 square miles, on which are pastured 45,000 cattle, 15,000 horses and mules, and 7,000 hogs.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 27, 1856
    On Tuesday afternoon last, as the gravel train was backing towards Chicago, between Evanston and Winnetka, a cow suddenly jumped upon the track, close to the car, thereby throwing it off the track and piling the succeeding ones into a confused heap, tearing up several rails, and instantly killing Mr. A. M. Shedd, the […]
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1880
    On Sundat last, Mr. N. J. Ostrander, of this city, met with a serious mishap. He has been employed by Hon. Wm. B. Dodge this winter and has assisted in the care of the large stock of Shorthorn owned by that gentleman. On the day in question he was trying up some cattle in […]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 21, 1881
    A Texas steer escaped from a car in St. Louis, last Wednesday, and for three hours made it lively for people on some of the main business streets. Several persons were injured but none fatally. Fully one hundred shots were fired at him by policemen and others, twenty of which took effect, before he […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 30, 1905
Long Trains of Palace Stock Cars Rushing from South to North. Â Â Â Â Not even the world’s fair nor convention, excursion trains take precedence over the long strings of palace stock cars rushing from south to north this month, that the largest shipment of Texas cattle in the history of the West may be deposited on […]