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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
OBITUARY. 
John P. Messer, D. V. S.—As a result of fever contracted 
at Santiago de Cnba, in the campaign against the Spanish, this 
young and promising veterinarian died at his home in New 
York City, on the first of September. He was for two years 
prior to the declaration of war a private in the 71st Regiment, 
and when his country asked for. volunteers he promptly offered 
his services, going to the front with his regiment, and returning 
to his home just in time to die. He graduated from the A. V. C. 
in 1897. 
Thomas Giffen, M. R. C. V. S.—After a lingering illness 
this well-known veterinarian passed away the latter part of 
August at his home in New York City. Coming to America 
from Belfast, Ireland, a dozen years ago, he located in New York 
City, and promptly took a commanding position as a practi¬ 
tioner, establishing a very large and lucrative practice. While 
at his zenith he was attacked by locomotor ataxia, and was 
soon compelled to give up active work, gradually declining 
until he became a hopeless invalid. He was a member of the 
U. S. V. M. A. and New York State Society, which passed reso¬ 
lutions of condolence at their late sessions. Until recently he 
was also a member of the New York County Association. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
H. F. Steeee, D. V. S., New York City, was married Sept. 
17, m New York. 
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Dr. Uiautard has been elected Foreign Corresponding 
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Brussels. 
“Dr. AND Mrs. Wesley U. Ua Baw, 275 Dudley Street, 
Boston, is the way it appeared on a card received at the Re¬ 
view office. 
The Bureau of x\nimal Industry has 1000 employes and 
an appropriation of $1,000,000. Two hundred veterinarians 
are upon the roll. 
The famous old broodmare Miss Russell, dam of Maud S. 
(the first trotter to beat 2:10), died At Woodburn Farm, Ivexing"- 
ton, Ky., Sept. 20. 
^ The Massachusetts Veterinary Association resumed 
its monthly meetings on Wednesday evening, Sept. 28th, at iQ 
Boylston Place, Boston. 
