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Show I HAD AWUDREAI : THAT CAME TRUE Roomers at the Central hotel were awakened last night by a general Jarring and shaking of the houso, and, thinking that an earthquake was in operation, prepared to escape Into the street in their night clothes. 1 Someone took the precaution, however, how-ever, to summon the police and the latter found on their arrival that, instead in-stead of a youna: earthquake shaking shak-ing the houso, two Italian laborers were engaged In a fierce hand-to-hand combat In an upper room. C. Bornardino and Joe Marino, bed fellows, were the combatants and It was not until the light in the room was switched on that the men recognized recog-nized each other and ceased hostilities. hostili-ties. Each had believed the other to be a murderous burglar and was fighting for his life. Bernardino presently explained matters by stating that he had a dream in which he retaliated from an insult by driving his fist half through the countenance of the ln-sulter ln-sulter Marino, sleeping beside him, managed to receive the force of tho blow full In the face and thinking that he was being mobbed began fighting with all his might. The two men rolled and plunged about in the darkness of the room until they were separated as stated Thomas Clark, who was also asleep in the room, awoke when the fight began, hilt thinking that descretion would prove the better part of valor decided to remain snug in bed until everybody had been killed. All three wore taken tak-en to the station to finish the night where peace could be maintained. 00 |