The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-18
APPEAR TO Be
WELL FOUNDED
Rumors That a Special Chinese
Mission Will Visit st. Peters
burg in March Are Quite Gener-
ally Believed
AN IMPERIAL PRINCE
WILL HEAD DELEGATION
Japanese Merchants Coming to
Russia in Constantly InCreas-
ing Numbers With a View to
Establishing Closer CONNER
ciaI Relations
Especial Correspondence of the Assoc
ciated Press.

Especial Correspondence of the Asso-
ciated Press).
| st. Petersburg, Nov. 1.-Rumors that
special Chinese mission, headed by
an imperial prince, will arrive here
about March lis. appear to be well
founded. Closer commercial relations
are stated to be the principal object.
The Japanese colony at Vladivostock
has received permission to erect a Gre
| matory. 1t will be the first crematory
| in the empire. Japanese merchants
have been coming to Russia in con-
stantly increasing numbers recently
with a view to closer commercial rela-
lions. All the signs at present point
| to more cordial relations between the
two empires, for the present at least
AS a counter offer to hurry Verners,
the st. Ptefsburg Horse Car Company
offers not only to build the palace
bridge, but to construct an underground
electric line under the Nevsky prospect.
It is believed that If Mr.. Werner does
not receive the franchise, the city will
electrify the tramways itself. The
Westinghouse Electric Company is fig
uring on this assumption, and 1t is also
studying the situation at Moscow.
The church in memory of the En-
peror- Alexander II, WITCH is being built
on the spot where he was assassinated,
seems to be progressing toward COM
pletion at last The exterior and inte-
rior walls are done and are being dec
GRATED. The gilded and porcelain cupo-
las have long been finished. The In
terror promises to be equally rich. Mo-
sale work will abound. There will be
room for 5000 worshippers. The church
is in the ctrictest Russian style.
The press is beginning to realize that
the government has made a radical
front-about in respect to famines and
this year displays no signs of pursuing
an ostrich policy. Commendable ener-
gy is also manifest in relief measures,
though reports from portions of Sibe-
ria, show the needed grain has not
reached its destination, prices in some
places standing 200 or 300 per cent
above normal.
criminal process which has Just
ended at Mini Novgorod proves that
Russia has not yet attained the ideal
of all governments, an incorruptible
public service. Several engineers led
by one Alexandroff, were convicted of
wholesale frauds in connection with
river improvements during a period of
years.
The ministers of finance proposes to
allow the temperance committee
4, O00, 900 roubles next year, or 100000
more than this year. The finance minis
ter. who has control of all factories,
proposes 10 introduce evening and Sun
day classes for workmen. instruction
is to be both elementary and technical.
The st. Petersburg project of police
asks for a large increase of the police
force. from 400 to $50 in higher police
and from 2O90 to 2500 in ordinary police.
The reserve, $50, and railway and har-
Dor police, Al, rename unchanged. Sal
aries are also to be increased to a mini
mum of 900 roubles a year. The total
increased expense will be 1882 roubles.
The annual student movement APP
pears 20 have begun this year at Kieff.
A meeting has been held there and res
olutions were adopted asking for the
re-admission of students who were ex-
PEELED from the university last winter
and who have hitherto vainly sought to
retCrn 1t will be recalled that all
who were Incorporated into the army
were pardoned on the occasion Of the
birth of the youngest grand duchess.
but not all all OF them were re-admitted
to the universities and others who had