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 […]
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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.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 25, 1908
    A horse belonging to Fred Wright was bitten by a hog last Saturday and narrowly escaped bleeding to death, an artery being severed. Dr. Butterfield was called to care for the injured animal.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 9, 1918
Fred Schafer of 457 Belvidere St., has a real “man-eating” horse. At least that is what he claims. Schaefer bought the horse about two days ago. This morning when he went into the stall the horse reached out his head and took a good sized bite in Schafer’s face. About noon Schafer’s condition was learned […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 30, 1911
    Bloomington, Ill., June 28.-Following a furious struggle with a maddened stallion, which seized his leg with its teeth, William Greenfield, a Mount Zion farmer, is dead from blood poisoning.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 15, 1869
    Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. W. Swanbroughs stallion “Senaca Chief,” after having received a pretty severe and merited whipping became greatly enraged and, when Mr. Swanbrough was in the act of putting a briddle on the animal, he caught him on the left arm with his teeth and rearing, lifted him high in the air […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, April 8, 1898
    An incident that pointed a strong moral took place on Chestnut street on Saturday afternoon. The street was thronged with promenaders, and the magnificent St. Bernard dog which a young woman was leading attracted much attention. Near 13th street the woman entered a store, leaving the dog outside. The dog was such a magnificent […]
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