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Show ROOSEVELT RECEIVED FIRST NEWS. Emperor of Russia Sends Word That He Has Signed Peaco Treaty. St. Petersburg. As a graceful mark of appreciation of tho part ho took in bringing about tho conference nt Portsmouth and tho resultnnt peace, President Roosovolt was tho first person per-son to bo notified by tho Russian government gov-ernment that Emporor Nicholas had ratified tho peaco troaty. As soon as tho emperor's slgnnturo hod bcon affixed af-fixed to tho Instrument nnd beforo tho trcnty had been brought back from Petorhor for tho counter slgnnturo of Foreign Minister LnmBdorff, tho news wns sont directly to tho prosldont. Tho official notification to tho French government, nccordlng to tho foreign office, followed sevoral hours later, when Count Lamsdorff had completed complet-ed "tho ratification by his signature. |