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Show NEW YEAR'S DAY VlN RUSSIA GRIM i s Shadow of Tragedy Is Cast Over the Holiday festivities. ST. 'PETERSBURG. Jan. 15. The sanguinary san-guinary tragedy In the famous restaurant. restau-rant. "The Bear," at an early hour Sunday Sun-day morning. In which the student David-oft David-oft was shot and killed by Count Sherome-tleff Sherome-tleff and the Count was badly beaten by friends of the dead man. has cast -a shadow over the new year festivities. The custom of making New Tear calls obtains In Russia to a larger extent than in any other country of the world, and at every ' reception today the affair at The Bear" was a subject for conver-, conver-, satlon,. it being universally accepted by superstitious Russians as an augury that passion and violence will reign in the Empire in 1906. The Emperor and Empress held a New . Tear's reception in the palace at Tsars- koe-Selo today, to which the members of the Diplomatic Corps traveled In a special spe-cial train from St. Petersburg. The reception re-ception was a formal affair, to which only the court functionaries, diplomats and a few notables were Invited. ' It passed- without notable Incident. The absence of Count Wltte created - some -tomment but it was officially explained ex-plained that the reception was a special one' for the representatives of the foreign powers. The only minister Invited was Count Lamsdorff. Minister of Foreign Af- The Emperor looked well and spoke pleasantly to all his visitors, especially singling out Mr. Meyer, the American Embassador, and Herr von Schoen. the . German Embassador. This being the first time his Majesty had met Mr. Meyer since his return from the United States, he took occasion to renew his expressions of gratitude for the part played by President Pres-ident Roosevelt and the United States in bringing about peace with Japan, |