Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, May 24, 1921
She Fought Off Furious Animal With Slipper Until Neighbors Came To Her Rescue. Her Injuries Are Serious. Â Â Â Â After an infuriated ram had broken her right leg, Mrs. T. J. Stahl, today fought off the animal with her slipper until neighbors could arrive to drive the animal away and thus probably owes her life to […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 18, 1908
Farmer Dies From Exhaustion After a Hard Battle. Â Â Â Â Bridgeport, N. J., Dec. 16.-G. Willis Bateman, a prosperous farmer of Fairfield township, died from exhaustion after a terrible struggle with a big ram. Bateman had sold some sheep, and when he was separating them the ram attacked him. Â Â Â Â He caught the animal by the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 2, 1904
    Horsemen Keep Up Fusillade for Two Hours, Destroying All Animals.     More than 1,000 thoroughbred sheep belonging to Morrow & Keenan of Willow Creek, were killed at Little Summit Prairie, forty miles east of Princeville, Oregon. While the herder was alone about twenty horsemen, with faces blackened, emerged from the timber and commanded him […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
    A flock of sheep belonging to James Maguire, Esq., of Benton, got upon the railroad track last Wednesday in time to be struck by a passing train. Thirty-five out of eighty were killed and a number of others injured.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1882
    A New York paper relates the following story, which certainly goes far to prove that a sheep can do some close thinking:     ‘A. H. Clark has a sheep which during the Summer, was pastured with some calves in an apple orchard adjoining the house. There were several trees in the orchard well loaded […]
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, May 30, 1855
    The Sandusky Register states that a locomotive on the Shore Road ran through a flock of sheep belonging to Mr. E. Foreman, and killed between fifty and sixty sheep.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 3, 1880
    A long time ago, in Mason County, Ky., an old trapper agreed to fight a ferocious ram, the prize being a quart of whisky. The whole village collected to see the fight. Both man and ram charged at the same time, but the man quickly righted, and planting his foot upon the lifeless carcass […]
Published in the Kaskaskia Western Intelligence, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Friday, January 23, 1818
It was lately stated, that in England a sheep had been sheared, and a coat completed of the wool, in 13 hours, and 20 minutes. At the woolen manufactory at Manchester, New-York, the wool for a coat was picked, greased, carded, roped and spun- the yarn was warped out into the loom and woven- the […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 14, 1921
     Dewey Anderson, well known young Waukegan nimrod Friday learned that it is easier to evade a peeved ram by climbing a tree than playing leap frog with it. He had just shot a rabbit at Antiock and went to pick it up when a large ram abruptly appeared and its disposition caused him to […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    Mr. C. Clark, of O’Plain, gives us the following rat story, for the truth of which he vouches. A few nights since he placed an old sheep in his barn, closing the doors in such a way that nothing could get in. The next morning he went to the barn and discovered the sheep […]