Show OF MINISTER FINANCE DEAD peritonitis resulting from an injury to spine is direct cause of demise was relieved from position during illness london way 9 A dispatch to the exchange telegram company from st petersburg announces the death there at 9 this morning of M late minister of finance M who was born in 1852 was the eon of a russian general of german extraction he entered the ministry of finance when 20 years of age and was credited with being a disciple of lit de watte whom he suc ceedee as minister of finance in december laet M became seriously as the result of an injury to his eplee in a carriage accident some time previously and wag obliged to undergo an operation and tn january of this year was said to be dying peritonitis having set in he was at that time relieved of his duties as minister of finance and transferred to the consul of the empire |