Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 22, 1853
At a recent bull-fight in Paris eleven horses were killed.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 2, 1853
The editor of the Home Journal who was among those invited to Niagara Falls on the late excursion of the Legislature of New York, among other incidents notices is the following: We had the luck to see a horse go over the Falls on Sunday afternoon. We say luck, because though we are sorry the […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, October 4, 1853
A piece of outrageous cruelty was lately committed upon two noble horses in Oramel, Allegany county, New York. They were raced 80 miles for a stake of $4000, the winning horse making the distance in eight hours and eight minutes, including stoppages, and the other dying in less than a hour after the race.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, May 25, 1890
Incident of the Rabid Dog Epidemic in Fulton County. Canton, Ill., May 24. An exciting incident of the mad dog epidemic now alarming the people of Fulton County occurred near Breed’s station on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railway, yesterday afternoon. John Byno was driving to his home at Breed’s. When within a few miles […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, November 2, 1855
Yesterday seemed a gala day for horseflesh-runaways innumerable were witnessed, and even a pair of rough stumpy mules felt the mania and started off at full gallop; but becoming convinced of the impropriety of the movement they held up after running a few rods. Two “bloods” from a neighboring county, desirous to display the gait […]
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, July 18, 1851
The Chicago Journal says: The Dixon stage was capsized in the Rock River, near Grand Detour, one day last week, and the horses were drowned. The driver, who could not swim, was -lucky man-kicked ashore by the struggling horse.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, April 14, 1851
The following incident is related by the Long Point, Advocate:-A few days since, as we were leaving our residence on our usual morning visit to the Advocate office, a sorrel horse belonging to us, galloped up and caught my arm, and made an attempt to pull us in the direction he wished to go. He […]
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 27, 1903
In Race of Several Miles West of Town. Rigs Unable to Overtake Him. Fellow was Apparently Demented-Ran Far and Fast with no Apparent Reason. Strange and as apparently impossible as it may seem, a man apparently demented won a race against several horses over a distance of about eight miles, or from Odett’s corners, near […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 18, 1898
Three Thousand Horses and Mules Create Havoc Among the Soldiers at Tampa, Fla. Washington, June 17.-A special to the post from Tampa, Fla., says: At ten o’clock Thursday night 3,000 horses and mules broke from the corrals and stampeded through the camps of Gen. Carpenter’s brigade. It was so dark and the excitement was so […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 29, 1898
About three O’clock Sunday afternoon people passing down Genesee street near Wheeler’s book store were terrified to see a little fellow knocked down by a horse and trampled on, the horse steeping on his head and arm. Passersby were even more surprised to see him get up and run away as if unhurt after he […]