Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1825
    A Carman was driving along Beekman street a few days since, and suddenly his horse came to a dead stand-still without any apparent cause. He urged the animal to proceed, by blows as well as words, to no effect, and as he had always been kind and true before his obstinacy was inexplicable. The […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, January 27, 1915
Lawrence Princ of the Phil Sheridan Farm Sustained Painful Injuries Today. Clothes Caught In Shaft. Horse Became Frightened and Driver of the Milk Wagon Was Thrown Under it. Â Â Â Â Lawrence Princ, who with his brother has been running the Phil Sheridan farm on Milwaukee road, west of Eighteenth street, North Chicago, but who has been […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1910
Albany, NY., Aug 5. — A single bolt of lightning at Grooms Corners killed instantly three men who were hurrying to the barn with a load of hay from a field on the Lockrow farm. Â The men were Spencer Lockrow, 30, son of the owner of the farm, and two laborers, Simon Watson and Andrew […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 13, 1878
    Mr. X., of Blank, Mississippi, was proprietor of several cotton plantations, one of which was on the hills, about twenty miles from his place of residence, where he frequently resorted for a few days at a time in the spring season. That region is very hilly, and when denuded of forest, and brought into […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 15, 1912
Shown its Casualties Are Larger Than Those of Bull Fighting. Â Â Â Â New York, April 15,-In an effort to show that football is a more brutal and deadly sport than bull fighting a statistician has compiled a table showing the total casualties in Spain from bull fighting during 1911. There were 872 bull fights, attended by […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 24, 1901
Cattle and Horses Do Not Get Frightened in Rough Weather. Â Â Â Â Do the horses and cattle get frightened and make much disturbance in rough weather? asked the writer of a New York dealer who ships cattle abroad. Â Â Â Â “Bless you, no; They’ve got sea legs that would put an old salt to shame. Occasionally a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1900
    Two horse thieves mounted on fleet ponies invaded the Chicago stock yards districts and escaped with fifteen or more animals.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 12, 1867
    These immense yards, which were incorporated in 1865, and opened to the public for business January 1, 1866, are now in full operation, and is the largest livestock market in the world. We give the following summary of their size and cost of construction, which will be valuable for reference:     Amount of land owned […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 21, 1903
Fire Wagon Horses Balky and it May Prove Disastrous. Refused To Leave Barn. Change had to be made-Delay of Ten Minutes Might Have Proved Serious. Â Â Â Â It is with regret that city officials, especially the fire department, admit that the team bought a little over a year ago for the fire wagon and to which […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 25, 1896
    William Myers, a Lima, Ohio, horseman, was attacked by a vicious stallion, when two pet bulldogs came to his rescue, attacked the stallion, and compelled it to release its hold. The dogs drove the horse into a stall. The horse killed two men at Bellefontaine, Ohio.