Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 21, 1903
Fire Wagon Horses Balky and it May Prove Disastrous. Refused To Leave Barn. Change had to be made-Delay of Ten Minutes Might Have Proved Serious. Â Â Â Â It is with regret that city officials, especially the fire department, admit that the team bought a little over a year ago for the fire wagon and to which […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 25, 1896
    William Myers, a Lima, Ohio, horseman, was attacked by a vicious stallion, when two pet bulldogs came to his rescue, attacked the stallion, and compelled it to release its hold. The dogs drove the horse into a stall. The horse killed two men at Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 14, 1874
    Some years since, a party of surveyors had just finished their day’s work in the north-western part of Illinois, when a violent snow storm came on. They started for their camp, which was in a forest of about eighty acres in a large prairie, nearly twenty miles from any other trees. The wind was […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 2, 1882
    There is a grey horse worked by the St. Louis Transfer Company in one of the omnibus teams which is an habitual tobacco-chewer. The animal is really passionately fond of the weed, and seems delighted when offered a piece of tobacco. The fact has become known at nearly all the hotels, and the equine […]
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 12, 1864
    The army correspondent of the Herald writes an account of the famous horse raid within the lines and without riders. He says:     Near Bermuda Hundred there is a large corral, where all the disabled and worn out horses-brought here by Gen. Sheridan after his famous raid-are confined. The poor beasts have apparently but […]
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Saturday, January 24, 1857
A very remarkable case of the effects of fright upon a horse occured at Franklin a short time since. A horse belonging to Mr. Joseph Palmer, was grazing in the yard near the fence, when the elephants belonging to the menagerie recently in this city, were passing along. The horse did not observe them till […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 29, 1877
    Last Saturday, across the river, in this county, an enraged horse attacked and bit a boy; the son of Mr. Humphreys, nearly to death. The boy, aged about 17, went out on the prairie to catch his own horse, which was in the herd, and as he approached the herd a strange horse attacked […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 24, 1906
Knocks Girl From Seat and Continues Way Riding in Her Place-Accident Has Peculiar Features-All Ends Well. Â Â Â Â A fatality was narrowly averted in a runaway last Friday in Libertyville which ended in a feature which would have been ludicrous had it not bordered so closely on the tragic. The team of Henry Elfering was standing […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 17, 1873
    An extraordinary case of cruelty to a horse was tried recently in an English Court. A Mr. Tomlinson, a plumber and glazier of York, hired a horse from Mr. Wilson for the purpose of taking his sweetheart an airing. The horse was not in good condition to make a long journey, and when jaded, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1885
    John Chittenden had a tip over and runaway last Saturday. The team came in contact with a sleigh load of hogs and were thrown in the snow and stopped without serious consquences, except broken harnesses and hog-rakes.