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Show Killed In a Brawl. , New York, February 9. Samuel - E. Thompson, traveling salesman, had a quarrel quar-rel early this morning on Greenwich avenue with Alexander Slater, bar-tender. Slater struck Thompson on the head with his clenched fist, felling him to the sidewalk. In his fall Thompson's head struck the flagstone flag-stone with a crash. Thompson's skull was fractured by the fall, and he died in the station-house shortly after. Slater said Thompson struck him in the saloon with a bililard cue, and that he only retaliated when they reached the street. Thompson was in the cotton business formerly, and had a fortune of $300,000, but lost it all in speculation.'- - |