Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 20, 1873
    A pair of horses, owned by Harvey Durkee, were drowned in the Kenosha harbor last Friday afternoon. The team had been engaged in hauling baled hay from the press barn on Park street to Baldwin’s warehouse, and in coming out of the latter place, after the teamster had disposed of a load, the horses […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 5, 1922
By international News Service     Abilene, Texas, Oct. 5.-Little 3-year-old Lewis McBride, son of L. E. McBride, was fatally injured when he approached and offered a handful of feed to his father’s horse. The horse lifted his front foot, knocking the child over, then pawed him, crushing his skull.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 20, 1922
    When a sheep was about to be slaughtered, it leaped into the stall of a horse owned by Horton Hayes, Whitefield, N. H. The horse protected it. Now the sheep trots along with the horse wherever it goes, keeping up with its fastest pace.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 2, 1900
    Newman, Ill., Oct. 2.-Otis Coffey, 14-years old, was riding a horse in a pasture and was thrown from the animal against a tree, killing him almost instantly.
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
    Saturday at 6 o’clock a horse belonging to a milkman, Martin Oleson standing near Berry’s got scared and started to run across the street, creating quite a commotion as people scattered to avoid being run over. Three boys barely escaped. The horse dashed towards Howard Lord’s window and in turning, its foot got in […]
Published in the The Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 23, 1872
    W. G. Farmer, Esq, of Libertyville, had the misfortune to have a team run away with a plow a few week’s since. One of the horses was badly injured, the cords of one of the legs being severed, and last week, the epzootic having set in, and there being little or no hope of […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Thursday, August 28, 1902
Animal in Fighting Flies Gets Hoof Wedged Between Teeth. Â Â Â Â Joseph Metzger, a Galena sewing machine agent, found his horse suffering frightful agonies in his barn. One of the hind feet of the animal was firmly wedged in its mouth. The horse had apparently been fighting flies, had caught an ankle in its jaws, and […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 15, 1902
Herman Korte Meets Death in Strange Way Near Centralia. Â Â Â Â Herman Korte, a Germantown farmer, was hanged by his own horse. After stacking wheat he was overcome by the heat while feeding his horse in the barn and his head caught in a looped halter strap that was fastened to the manger and the animal […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 11, 1902
Mrs. W. J. Latchford Meets Horrible Death in Van Wert, Ohio. Â Â Â Â Mrs. W. J. Latchford, wife of the vice-president of the Royal Packing Company of Chicago, met a terrible death near Van Wert, Ohio. She was visiting in the city, and, securing a horse and buggy from a livery stable, went for a drive […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 3, 1900
    Mrs. Clark Chandler, of Gurnee, had a miraculous escape from fatal injury last Friday afternoon at the circus grounds in Waukegan.     Mrs. Chandler, accompanied by her three children, had driven to the grounds in a surrey drawn by a team of grays, supposedly gentle. One of the animals reared and plunged at sight […]