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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Bull Fight Turns To Riot.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 29, 1899

Disappointed Mexican Spectators Become Enraged.      Failure on the part of the manager of a Campeche, Mexico, bull fight to fulfill his promises resulted in a general riot, during which many persons were badly injured. The manager had advertised fights with six fierce bulls and Spanish picadors were billed to perform the highest feats of the […]

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Cows and Horse.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 24, 1875

     While Dr. Lewis’ horse was hitched on the street yesterday, three or four cows passed by, when one of the animals, probably under the mistaken impression that the doctor had refused to sign the petition to allow cows to run at large, made a dive at the horse, inserting one of its horns into his […]

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Cow

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Harald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, May 16, 1855

     Singular.-The Paw Paw Free Press mentions a singular occurrence which took place in that village last week Wednesday. That evening a cow belonging to one of the citizens there, exhibited symptums which led to the belief that she had been bitten by a massaga, [a small species of rattlesnake,] and in order the more […]

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Fearful Encounter With a Bull.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, May 31, 1864

     Mr. John Wilson, a man of sixty-four years of age, living in the town of Serena, had a narrow escape from being gored to death by a young bull, on the morning of the 19th ult. Going into his cow yard, the bull made a rush at him, and threw him down with his […]

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