Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, October 3, 1902
Then their was explosion and sudden shower of meat. Â Â Â Â Thirteen cows, the property of Claude Peters, a dairyman near Martinsburg, Pa., were destroyed recently by attempting to eat dynamite. The detonation could be heard for a mile in every direction. The cows were blown many feet into the air, and not a single one […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1898
J. McKeegan’s famous bunch of shorthorned cattle, numbering 300 head, was pasturing in the reservation near Bancroft, Neb., on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and were either […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 24, 1904
    In a wreck on the Kansas City Southern two men were killed and several slightly injured. The wreck occurred at Rosepine, La., and was caused by a bull which charged the locomotive on a trestle. The engine and two coaches fell into a ditch.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 5, 1819
Cow Feasts on Angler’s Prize Salmon and Tops Off Lunch With Trout He Flung at Her. Â Â Â Â The angler could cast a fly, and had caught trout in the south of England, but had never so much as seen a salmon river. Great was his joy, therefore, when one day he received an invitation to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, February 20, 1918
Old Farmers Pluck and Presence of Mind Save His Life. Â Â Â Â Knocked down and rolled over and over by an angry bull in a field at the County hospital at Farnhurst, Del. Alfred Brown, sixty years old, was saved by his own presence of mind and the timely assistance of Robert McFarlin. Â Â Â Â When Brown […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 3, 1917
Ohio Youth Makes Record as a Toreador Without Weapons. Â Â Â Â Spain, land of toreadors, should hear of Albert Hosmer, fourteen, of Parkman, Ohio. Â Â Â Â As a bull fighter Hosmer has just made a record, without weapons. Â Â Â Â A bull owned by the boy’s father charged as he sought to feed the animal an apple. He […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922
By International News Service     Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 3-The increasing popularity of the mountain variety of Alabama “moonshine” was effectively demonstrated during the hearing of a case in J. Q. Smith’s division of the Circuit Court here. Evidence adduced also brought out the fact that a new field has opened up for the activities of […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 2, 1898
    Rufus D. Shupstring, a farmer, of Safford, Ala., noticed some time ago that one of his cows was not giving her usual quantity of milk, and, thinking that some of the negroes were milking the cow at night, set out to watch her when, to his surprise, he saw four pigs out of a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1897
    A striking example of the intelligence of elephants was seen in Middletown, Conn., the other day during a circus parade. A small child on Broad street got away from its mother and toddled out into the street. Before anyone could realize what the child was up to it was directly in front of the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1910
Escapes From Butcher Shop and Flies in Horses Face to Avoid Capture. Â Â Â Â A game rooster of the Philipino breed ran amuck from a local butcher shop, this morning and the fact that there are no fatalities is deemed a miracle. This game rooster was to be placed on the guillotine today and not being […]