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Show H AD PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. Titled Russian Learned Railroad Business Busi-ness in the United States. St. Petersburg. Prince Michael Hilkoff, member of the council or the empire and formerly minister of communications, com-munications, died suddenly on Sunday. Sun-day. March 21. Prince Hilkoff was well known in the United States, where he secured his railway training. To him belongs the credit of getting the maximum amount of work out of the. Siberian railway during the war in Manchuria Prince Hilkoff, who belonged to an old but comparatively poor family, emigrated to the United States when a young man, renouncing the title to which he was subsequently restored. re-stored. In the United States he worked at a bolt machine at a wage of $7.50 per week. Later he was employed em-ployed in many minor capacities on American railroads, beginning as an assistant stoker. |