Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The butler of a palatial mansion on Brooklyn Heights permitted James F. Larkin and Patrick Fitzgerald to fight for n purse of SSOO in the dining-room. Twelve slogging rounds had been fought when the owner of the residence appeared and nut n •top to hostilities. The referee declared the tight a draw, ordered the money to be divided, nnd announced that all l>ots were 0ff.... Margaret Mather, the well-known actress, was married at Buffalo to Emil Haberkorn, an orchestra leader. Three frame structures at New York, occupied by colored families, wore burned. Mrs. Sarah L. Johnson, aged 50, and her 6-year-old adopted daughter perished in the flames. Walter 0. C.'.mt, of New Haven, l.as been arrested in New York for attempting the life of George Condit Smith in Madison Square. The accused has for several years coached the Yale toot-hall team. It appears that he was onoe engaged to an heiress. who discarded him and married Smith, and that ho then threatened the latter's life.