Thursday, September 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1916
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. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 6, 1916
Fourteen Year Old Lad Shows Presence of Mind Which Results in His Escape. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 3, 1819
    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. […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 7, 1891
Harding, a Cattleman, Insane from the Horrors of a Terrible Experience. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, September 26, 1917
    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.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 21, 1917
Chas. O’Hare Sustains Bad Injuries This Morning in Local Freight Yards. Â Â Â Â 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 […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 15, 1826
    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 […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, March 3, 1827
    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 […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825
    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.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 26, 1825
    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, […]