NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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S^toAnimalf 0 " ° f ^ S ° dety f ° r the tendon of Cru- 
. p ° BITEA1 RY.—John J. Gleason, son of C. A. Gleason, V. S., 
v 7 ’ N ' 7 if ™ybn g ht tlllrd -y ear student at the American 
less 01 f ?e> Vf- on . Sunda y> Dec - 20, after a brief ill- 
AWH A f d ® e § :a . tlon of ! lls , classmates attended the funeral on 
/ uesday following, and placed upon his grave a wreath of af¬ 
fectionate sorrow. 
H - Harbaugh, of Richmond, Va., was elevated to 
the presidency of the State Board of Veterinary Medical Exam¬ 
iners by the December Review, which the modest veterinarian 
wis les us to correct, and we do so with pleasure, but desire to 
assure our readers that he is a very high private and a hard 
worker m its ranks. 
Merhnil G 4 ISI ' A - N ? Vel r E iV NARIANS are j° inin g the Veterinary 
Medical Association of New York County gradually • two be¬ 
came members at the December meeting. Every graduate in 
the territory of Greater New York should unite to make this 
he grandest veterinary medical association in the world, which 
could be easily accomplished. 
, ,?; EC , E . NT Marriages of Veterinarians.— Dr. Cecil French 
of Washington, D. C., to Miss Florence Day, daughter of Mr.’ 
barrister, of Montreal, Canada, Sept. 23. . . . 
Dr. \\ . g. Rhoads, of Eansdowne, Pa., to Miss Anna M. Moore 
° f ,A r r a11 ’ Pa -’.° ct H- ■ ■ ■ Dr. Jno. M. Parker, of Haver¬ 
hill, Mass., to Miss Edith Helen Snell, of the same city, Oct. 27. 
Newton S. Bryant, a veterinary surgeon of Kansas Citv 
who was arrested at the New York Horse Show, a: the instiga¬ 
tion of the New_ York County Veterinary Medical Association 
tor practicing without being registered, as detailed in the De- 
ceinber Review, was convicted by the Court, and sentence sus- 
pe ’•cj at - t , he , rec l llest of tlle Judiciary Committee, they beine 
satisfied with the moral effect of the conviction. 
State Veterinarian Trumbower says Illinois cattle are 
less troubled with disease than at any time the past year but 
swine plague is prevalent in the northern part of the State. 
During the year’s post-mortem inspection at the stock-yards 
only seventy-eight cases of tuberculosis were found and twenty- 
one cases of cancer. Carcasses of 802 cattle were passed 011 
post-mortem examinations and 1643 condemned and ordered 
tanked. 
