Show COUNT WITTE DEAD Russian State Statesman man With World wide i Reputation is Called London Count Count Sergius Julovich I Witte Russia's first prime minister who died Friday night was born June i 29 1849 at Tiflis He was one of the i iS Russian plenipotentiaries at Ports Portsmouth S mouth N. N H. H in the negotiations for fox peace with Japan in 1905 He w was s afterward made a count and appointed appoint appoint- ed president resident of the new ministry but retired in 1906 d ax and aid held no important post after that time |