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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The main barn and several outbuildings of Rome I Respess stock farm at Woodlawn, Ohio, were destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. The good stallion Serrano, by Fonso Joanette, was burned to death and several other valuable horses had narrow escapes. The barn was valued at ,C03, and Serrano was worth nearly as much. The jockeys quarters and kitchen were destroyed, also a pmall shed containing five or six valuable game cocks. The fire originated in a mysterious manner, in the straw which was stored in the north part of the building. Rudolph Varrick, an employe of the stable, was first to discover the blaze, and he gaye the alarm. The fire spread rapidly and by the time the employees of the Bracket JBridge Company, who turned out in a body to aid in the fire fighting,, reached the scene the entire building was a mass. of flames. 1 1
