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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 34.

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The city of Galveston, Texas, now has a great wall of granite built between it and the sea to prevent the recurrence of another such catastrophe as that which wrecked the city a few years ago. The structure stands 17 feet above mean tide, and cost $1,500,000.
Refugees from Teheran tell terrible stories of the ravages of cholera in Persia. It is stated that in that city the death list has reached as many as 900 a day.
Turkish troops are reported to have discovered a band of 52 Bulgarians setting fire to the granaries, and to have killed all but two of the Bulgarians.
Another great cave has been found in Kentucky, which it is thought will rival the Mammoth Cave when its extent has been fully determined.