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Horse Makes Way Back to Old Owner After Months.

Unusual Case of Animal Instinct Displayed by Animal of J. J. Rouse. Pined For its Old Home. After Long Absence the Horse Finally Appears at Master’s Gate for Admittance.      About five months ago J. J. Rouse, who owns a large farm just west of here, sold a fine black horse to a farm laborer […]

Runaway Horse Carries Boy Near To Speeding Train.

Fourteen Year Old Lad Shows Presence of Mind Which Results in His Escape.      A miraculous escape from serious injury or death happened in Zion City Friday afternoon. About 2 o’clock a horse and rig belonging to the American Express Company suddenly went bounding along Elijah avenue at full speed. A boy about 14 years […]

Brutality To Animals.

     Mr. Harrison, of Canterbury, acomplished a most arduous undertaking; he laid a wager of 3000 guineas that he could ride from Canterbury to London in three hours, being a distance of 56 miles. He started at 3 o’clock and arrived at the appointed place in two hours and fifty-seven minutes, winning by three minutes. […]

Was Nine Days Down A Disused Well.

Harding, a Cattleman, Insane from the Horrors of a Terrible Experience.      Englewood, Kas., Dec. 6.- [Special.]-News comes of the rescue from an old disused well in No man’s Land of a cattleman named Harding by the driver of the stagecoach which every ten days runs from Englewood to Beaver City, No Man’s Land, and […]

500 Horses Burned.

     East St. Louis, Sept. 26-Five hundred horses are believed to have been burned to death in a fire this afternoon which is reported to be sweeping over the National Stockyards. Four blocks of the yards have been wiped out at 2 o’clock. The damage was estimated at that time to be $200,000.

Horses Start Up, Man Thrown Under Load Of Brick.

Chas. O’Hare Sustains Bad Injuries This Morning in Local Freight Yards.      This morning Charles O’Hare, a local driver for the Bairstow Coal Company, was unloading a car on the E. J. & E. tracks. In some way his team started up rather suddenly and he was thrown beneath the load of brick and as […]

Horse Racing in Russia.

     Nevotcreskask, May 9th.- The horse races which took place last year at St. Petersburg, between English and Cossack horses, suggested to some of our proprietors of studs, the idea of trying the strength and celerity of their horses by long races. The horses of Count J. Platoff had gained the prizes in all the […]

Horses Fed with Milk.

     Major Denham relates that the Tibboos, in central Africa, keep their horses entirely on milk of the camel, grain being too scarce and of too high a price to be employed for that use. The milk is given to these animals, sweet and sour, and this traveller says he never saw horses in a […]

Beggers on Horse Back.

     Horses are so plentiful in Buenos Ayres, that beggers take their rounds and ask alms on horseback, without diminishing, in any degree, their claims to sympathy. These beggers do not extend their excursions, and thus call in question the old proverb, “set a begger a horseback,” Dew. P.

Wolves and Dogs.

     Russia,-On the 5th of April, two women, walking at Riga, in a solitary part of the city, were torn to pieces by a pack of dogs which had no master. By an official account of the devastation committed by wolves, in the government of Livonia, in 1823, it appears that they devoured 1841 horses, […]