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Livestock Burned.

Kankakee, Ill., Jan. 17.-Twenty-eight head of cattle and 18 horses were burned Sunday night with the barn of T. J. Clark, two miles west of here. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000.

An Equine Rat Killer.

Roscoe Franklin of Brockton, Mass., owns a bay horse, known by the name of Shiloh, that is possessed of a peculiar accomplishment. Mr. Franklin’s stable, a rather old building, is infested by rats that give the horses much trouble, stealing their food and making themselves pests generally. It began to be observed a short time […]

237 Horses Cremated.

Fires in Chicago Also Cause Property Loss of $600,000. Chicago, July 10.-Two hundred and thirty-seven horses were cremated, a hundred more were imperiled and a property loss aggregating approximately $600,000 was caused by two fires which destroyed the transfer stables of the Arthur Dixon Transfer company, South State street, near Fourteenth, and the storage ware […]

Arrow Heads Cause Fire.

Indiana Farmer Drives Into Barn, Horses Hoofs Hit Flint-Blaze. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Nov.3.-When George W. Hayes, a farmer, three miles north of here, drove a team to his barn, the steel shoes of the horses came in contact with several Indian arrow heads that were on the floor. The striking of the steel and flint caused […]

Lightning Bolt Struck Shoes From Horse’s Feet.

Freak Bolt that Hit the Keen Stables Near Libertyville. Skin of 1,500 Horse Had Many Perforations. And the Strangest Thing is That Dwight Major, One of the Finest Horses in the Stable, is Now Recovered. Many stories are told of the curious and strange pranks that have been wrought by that mysterious something-electricity, Lightning in […]

Many Horses Die In Chicago Blaze.

290 Animals on Second Floor Of Swift and Company Stables Meet Doom When Blast and Fire Come at Once. Chicago, Nov. 1.-More than 100 horses were killed and about fifty wagons destroyed by explosion, it is supposed, of a steam pipe running over the roof of Swift & Co.’s barn at the stockyards. There were […]

Horse’s Bite Proves Fatal.

Causes Death of Stock Dealer Two Days After Animal’s Attack. Marion, Ill., Oct. 31.-J. T. White, a stock dealer, is dead here as the result of a bite of a horse. He was feeding the animal last Wednesday when it attacked him, inflicting fatal wounds.

Runaway.

What might have proven a bad runaway, occurred yesterday afternoon. The Johnson laundry wagon, of Lake Bluff was being driven by Miss Lydia Johnson, who got out of the wagon and left the horse standing. Just as Miss Johnson came back the horse started to run. The girl grabbed the lines and clung to them. […]

A Horse Election.

Horses are represented by naturalists, as having, in a state of nature, a real republican government. It is only when tamed and civilized, that they become slaves. In their wild state, in South America and the Ukraine, they are said to have regular elections-for the choice of Present, or chief magistrate. In what manner they […]

Horses.

A very brilliant entertainment has lately come off in Paris, at the Grand Hotel, on which occasion the meat supplied to the guests consisted principally of horse-flesh served in various styles. There was nearly a hundred persons present, including many distinguished ladies. Several English noblemen, as well as titled Frenchmen, professors and savants sat down, […]