, Waukegan Daily Sun on Saturday, April 5, 2025
Bovine Morals Corrupted. Catskill Cows Taught by Deer to Leap Fences. Ever since the deer were released from the State park in the Catskill mountains several years ago they have more or less become a nuisance. The law prohibits the deer from being shot for five years, and game protectors are kept busy at a […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, September 17, 1850
Sam Patch Beat by a Cow.-A cow belonging to Mr. Davis, who lives near Portage Middle Falls, made her first leap a few days since. The place was the projecting rock on the West side of the river, a few rods below the falls, and just North of the “Devil’s Hole,” where it is over […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Death by Hydrophobia. A most melancholy case of hydrophobia has just occurred in the family of Mrs. Law, a highly respected colored woman in this town. The facts as nearly as we can learn them, are substantially these; a few weeks ago the son of Mrs. Law, a very likely, intelligent young man of about […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1853
Another R. R. Accident,- The accommodation train for Alton on Tuesday night, ran upon a cow lying on the track, a few miles north of Collinsville. The locomotive and tender were thrown aside and several freight cars came smashing after. The passenger car remained upon the track. The fireman was instantly killed and the wood-passer […]
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 8, 1901
Finds Clock Works in Cow.— B. Frank King, while butchering a cow at Sutton, Mass., found, on opening the animal’s stomach, that it contained all the running gear of an ordinary sized mantel clock, two stones, each the size of a hen’s egg, and a number of pieces of glass. The cow was apparently healthy.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 7, 1853
On the night of the 3rd, near Whitehall, New York, a freight train ran over a cow, throwing the engine and several cars off the track. The engineer was killed, and two cars, loaded with hogs, were thrown into the canal.
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 […]
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 Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 19, 1877
Aurora, Illinois.-Up to last year some 700 cows had run in the streets of this city to the great disgust and annoyance of the people generally. This was convenient to the cow owners, but our citizens, by a vote of two to one on the subject, decided that the city should no longer be used […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, June 6, 1854
The train on the Canada road going east on Friday evening ran over a cow, and the locomotive, baggage car and first passenger car, were thrown down an embankment. Six persons were instantly killed, and four persons so much injured as to die the same night. Names not given. Other persons injured were taken to […]