Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 7, 1899
    In the great pastures along the South Canadian River in Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma, and across the line in the Chickasaw nation, flies are swarming on the cattle as never before known. dead cattle are found daily in every herd.
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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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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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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