Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 27, 1908
His Driver intended Them For His Dinner it Seems. Yesterday a local wagon driver put some eggs he intended for his dinner in the horse’s feed bag and forgetting about it put the bag to the horse’s nose at dinner time. The horse, he claims, ate the eggs greedily and when the driver took the […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 3, 1908
Evidently Had a College Education and Knew Electricity. Ran Sleigh of Steel Into Hall Signal Switch and Train is Flagged. 1. First the Lake Forest horse ran away. 2. It made a bad break by getting onto the Northwestern tracks near the depot. 3. It corrected the “bull” by drawing the sleigh attached to it […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 11, 1909
Floor Gives Way and Animal Lands in the Basement. Chicago, Oct. 11.-A horse attached to a lumber wagon became frightened at Twenty-Fifth street and Emerald avenue, and started to run. The wagon was torn from the animal, which ran south, and through a plate-glass window into a saloon. The floor broke and the horse fell […]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, September 20, 1909
George Devine, teamster and scavenger, lay in a field on Eleventh street beyond the west side car line from 9 o’clock last night until 7 o’clock this morning, a fallen horse on his leg and with the member broken below the knee and giving him excruciating pain that at times caused consciousness to flicker out. […]
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 1, 1907
Pittsburg, Aug. 1. J. William Neff, prominent in political and sporting circles, died suddenly at the finish of an exciting horse race. Neff drove his own entry in the race and just before he reached the end of the course he suddenly drew rein exclaiming “I’m done for,” and expired.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 18, 1906
The young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Renehan, near Wauconda, was kicked and seriously injured recently by a colt which he had been riding. The boy had dismounted when the animal in a frolic tore out of his grasp and turning shot both heels at his head. One of the hoofs caught the […]
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 31, 1906
Driver Saw Freight but Failed to Perceive Approach of Passenger. Train Leaves But The Reins In His Hands. Buggy and Man Escape Carnage but Horse id Smashed to Flinders by Passing Flier. Driving home from Waukegan at midnight last night Lee Metzendorf, of Grayslake, a barber, saw that there was a freight train along the […]
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, April 18, 1835
There was a terrific fire in St. Louis on Monday night of last week. It broke out at 12 o’clock, on Market Street, in the Livery Stable owned by Laveille and Morton. All efforts to save buildings were fruitless; and horrible to state, fifty-one horses are supposed to have been burnt with the building. Others […]
Friday, December 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1873
The details of the great storm in Minnesota are heart sicking. The reports from different sections indicate terrible loss of life and property. In Winnebago City fully sixty teams had gathered from the surrounding country. Farmers with their wives were there, having left their little children at home, in many instances alone, little dreaming of […]
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, June 15, 1890
Wild Scenes Caused by the Stampede of a Circus in Africa. Diamond Fields [Africa] Advertiser: Shortly after 11 o’clock last night a general stampede of all the animals comprising Fillis’ menagerie took place. This appalling occurrence is attributed to a miscreant-at present at large-who, possessed of a grudge against Mr. Fillis or members of his […]