Petrograd, March 13.
The death is announced of M. Count Witte, the well-known Rus-
"Count Sergius Witte was born at on June 1, 1849. Educated at Kischineff and at the University of the service of the of the Southwestern Railway and during the Russo-Tarkish war was director of traction. From 1881-89 he was director of the Southwestern Railways and of the railway department of Ministry of Finance. Tu 1892 he became Minister of Ways of Communication and in the autumn of the same year Minister of Finance. 1896 he" was appointed of State and in 1800 actual Privy Council lor. In 1903 he became Miniater of Finance. He formed the first Russian Constitutional Ministry and was Pre sident, retiring in 1906—Ed.
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