Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 23, 1906
Animal Attacks Another, But Girls Succeed in Driving Him Away. Â Â Â Â Winona, Minn.-In Saratoga, this county, lives James Ferrier, with two daughters, who are no strangers to fear, as has just been shown by their risking their lives to save a $200 shorthorn bull belonging to their father. Â Â Â Â The animal had just been bought, […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 28, 1905
    Statistics published in Spain state that during 1904 nearly 12,000 bulls were killed in Bull fights. The bulls killed about 10,000 horses. The best and most valuable bulls of the arena are raised on the vast estates of the Duke of Veragun, who has made a fortune out of his bussiness.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 7, 1906
Infuriated, Attacks Horse Tearing Open Abdomen-Animal Dies Almost Instantly. Â Â Â Â A horse belonging to John Suydam, who lives northwest of Libertyville about two miles, was gored to death last week by a ferocious bull which attacked it upon the highway. Mr. Suydam had turned the horse loose upon the road. A neighbor, Joe Beckler, had […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1894
    No country in the world offers greater facility for stock breeding than does Argentina, in South America, and in no place is breeding carried on more extensively. The late droughts there, however, have played havoc with the herds, and reports from a single province show how great has been the destruction. This is the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 20, 1872
    On Tuesday Last, Isaac James Esq., of Fremont, in this county came very near losing his life in a contest with a beligerent bull that he was attempting to drive out of a grain field into which the animal had jumped. Although armed with a pitch-fork, that he used freely after the unruly bovine […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 26, 1865
    Patrick Bows, an Irishman, residing in this city, had a narrow escape from death on Thursday morning last. He was leading a Bull [his own property] to water, and as he was returning from the river the brute, for some reason unknown, became enraged, and turned ferociously upon Mr. Bows, knocking him down, treading […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1922
    Mention of a bull in a china shop suggests destruction swift and complete, but a cow spent a quarter of an hour in a china shop in the main street of Tipperary without breaking or upsetting a single article. Entering the shop while the owner was absent, it went behind the counter and then […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 31, 1900
    At Wahoo, Neb., a shepherd dog guarded and protected the baby of Fred Baltz Jr., nineteen hours during a violent storm. The child, three years old, wandered away and after the storm was found sitting under the shelter of a creek bank, wet and muddy, but uninjured.
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 10, 1900
     A bad accident is reported from Leipzig, which is entirely attributed to the speaking and imitative powers of a parrot.     A very fine parrot inhabits a cage situated near the starting place of an electric car. From being constantly near the conductor it has learned to imitate them so well that the other […]