FOREIGN CABLES.
♦ * . LIGHTNING FIGHTS LIGHTNING RUSSIAN SNEAKING POLICY NO PLAOE FOR TOURISTS « EVERY BUSH A CONSTABLE " (United Peess Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. 1. The great electric generating plant it Niagara Falls has been destroyed ; *>y lightning, which burst up the big transformer in the power house. It is believed five Russian torpedo boats have passed the Dardanelles. 1 here has been an alarming increase : n brigandage in the Caucasus. Even garrison towns pay regular tribute to 'mnds of brigands. Attacks on sta"*ions and trains on the St. Ladikavka railway are frequent and many travellers have been killed. America is agitated at the news that German agents at Santiago propose the immediate purchase of the Chilian jattleship Capitan Pratt and the ;ruiser Esmeralda; also the two Chilian warships now being built in Em ope.
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Southland Times, Issue 18061, 3 February 1903, Page 3
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136FOREIGN CABLES. Southland Times, Issue 18061, 3 February 1903, Page 3
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