Show EMPRESS WITH I HEIR TO THRONE Dead Shown in Shadowy Outline RUSSIAN STUDENTS STU WORK PICTURE PRINTED AND CAUSED A A SENSATION p St t Pot Petersburg April 16 Quite a sen sensation sensation nation was caused this morning by the I appearance in Inthe the Neva the most wide illustrated weekly in Rus Rue Russia Russia sia of a halftone picture representing the imperial family f mily including the em empress empress press holding the heir to the throne in inthe inthE inthe the background of the picture showing in ill shadowy shadow outlines the emperor Grand Duke Sergius Grand Duke Alexis the dowager empress em ress the heir to the throne and und practically all the living members member of the Romanoff family lying dead in their coffins The work is done so skit fully that in the shadows In iii the drapery behind the imperial family are dis discernible with great difficulty The pub publishers ushers lishers disclaim any previous knowledge of the shadowy figures The culprits v who ho were students employed on the pa paper paper per have not yet been located Copies of this edition of the Neva are selling ellin at a big biff premium Witte Going Abroad M r I Witte Vitte president of the committee of ministers has definitely decided to give up UI all work and go abroad Th The Thelast last Jast straw was the Imperial ad addressed addressed addressed dressed Thursday to Interior Minister creating a special commission to discuss questions qu relating to peasant tenure of lands and the abolition of the tha peasant ant commission over which M 11 Witte presided pr si The emperor took the stop tp without even evell apprising M 31 1 Vitte of his tile intention The members mt of the Witte itte commission were actually at vork rk Tuesday evening and woke ur up urI I yesterday to find the commission out of nf existence M l Witte at tributes attributes the emperors act to court intrigue directly aimed against himself and yesterday informed his friends that he was com corn disheartened and discouraged I no loner loncer able to endure the humilia humiliations humiliations heaped upon him and that he would leave all aU and go abroad for a time First Warning The rhe Siovi has received its first warn warning warning ing log for the publication of articles entitled The Bureaucracy and The War Var and Reform in which the paper se severely verely erel arraigned the competency of the bureaucracy and the general staff and the war office M 11 Wittes antagonists at court where their Influence was greatly feared by M lL Witte was effectively reinforced by part of the old Von cabal head headed headId headd ed Id d by M L Sturmer formerly undersecretary undersecretary 1 of the interior and M Stich In Inki ski ki former chief hie adjutant of the In Interior IntErior L tenor department who was forced out of the ministry of the interior by for former former former mer Interior Minister f ky and they have wreaked their ven yen vengeance on their ancient chief enemy en my M 11 Witte The Associated Press IB is Informed that g M or Vitte went to yester yesterday yesterday day da and informed the emperor that it was quite plain that a plot against him existed and that he desired to retire The Th emperor however r Is la understood to tot t have 0 declined d again agRin to accept the resignation re ignation |