Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
Bulls Couldn’t Stand Before an Auto. Paris, Sept. 30.-A dispatch from Bayonne to the Figaro describes a bull fight which occurred there yesterday in which an automobile replaced the horse of the picador. The novelty drew an enormous crowd, but seven bulls in succession turned tail and fled at the sight of the auto.
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 […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, May 10, 1853
A bull fight was lately advertised at Placerville, California, but the Americans, not liking the Spanish amusements, lassoed the bull, whipped the matadores, and tore down the building.
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 […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, June 17, 1853
The N. O. Creasant of the 28th ult., has the following: Yesterday pursuant to public notice, came off at Gretna, opposite the Fourth District, the long heralded fight between the famous grizzly bear General Jackson [victor in fifty battles] and the Attakapas bull Santa Anna. The fame of the coming conflict had gone forth to […]
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, January 1, 1853
A correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, writing from Athens county, Ohio, on the 17th inst., relates the following: “I have just been wandering about the country in search of land belonging to some clients of mine; and in doing so have met with many amusing incidents. Only the other day, as a caravan of rare […]
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 27, 1852
The Queen of Spain attended a bull-fight on the 4th ult., at which fourteen bulls were killed.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 19, 1914
Enraged Animal Near Fox Lake Resents Appearance in the Herd. Kicks And Butts The Car. First Attack Throws Headlights Over Car-Second Is Butting of the Radiator. While driving through what is called “The big hollow” north of Volo one night recently, Fred Nader, a farmer of McHenry county, was the victim of an enraged bull […]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 14, 1907
Milking When Wild Bovine Swept Down Upon him and Battled With Him for Hour. Friends of James Monaghan, of Wauconda, were shocked Monday evening when news telephoned to the village that he had been badly hurt by a bull while getting up the cows for the evening milking. The bull came upon his victim unawares, […]
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1878
A woman was tossed by a bull in Pittsburgh. She had a baby in her arms, and, as she was thrown from a bridge to hard surface ten feet below, both she and the child were seriously injured. The owner of the bull was sued by the woman’s husband for damages, but there was no […]