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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. Tait Butler, President of the A. V. M. A., has removed 
from Indianapolis, Ind., to Cudahy, Wis. 
The Ontario Veterinary College opened the session 
of 1900-1901 on October 10th with an address by Principal 
Smith before a large class of students. 
The Wisconsin Society of Veterinary Graduates is 
actively engaged in prosecuting offenders under their recently 
acquired practice act, and is meeting .with some success. 
A Civil Service Examination for the positions of inspect¬ 
ors and assistant inspectors under the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try, was held at New York, Oct. 23. 
Recently a weanling mule was sold for $76, and number¬ 
less sales of adult hybrids at $500 and $400 per team are beinv 
recorded. 
CRESCEUS recently trotted a mile in 2.04 at Cleveland, Ohio, 
placing himself firmly on the throne of trotting stallions, and 
seriously menacing the world’s trotting record of 2.03^, so lately 
made by that great gelding The Abbott. 
Dr. H. Fee, Waterloo, Iowa, graduate of the Ontario Veter¬ 
inary College, class ’87, is dead. He was a member of the 
Iowa State Veterinary Medical Association and a successful 
practitioner. 
Dr. J. William Fink, who has been filling the position of 
assistant to Dr. R. W. Hickman, B. A. I., New York, has been 
transferred to Washington, for duty under Dr. V. A. Noor- 
gaard. Chief of the Division of Pathology. 
Dr. Edward R. Squibb, of Brooklyn, founder of the well- 
known manufacturing drug house of E. R. Squibb & Son, is 
dead at the advanced age of 81. He was a man of the highest 
integrity, and his products are everywhere synonymous with 
purity and excellence. 
Field Marshal von Waldersee, Commander-in-chief of 
the army of the allies in China, has had shipped for his personal 
use in the Orient, two fine American saddle horses, purchased 
from S. T. Harbison & Co., of Eexington, Ky. They cost in 
Kentucky about $1500, which will be greatly increased by the 
expenses of transit. Since the Germans have ever boasted of 
their own bred army chargers, we may take it as evident that 
the American saddle horse is deemed superior. 
Capt. R. Marsham, of the English Army, located at New 
Orleans, La , has written several times to the Review, asking 
