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Howard and Sixteenth Streets.

extreme radicals, however, read the docu-
ment with delight and amazement, de-
claring that Il could not fail to rally the
moderates to the support Of Count witte
BY the irony Of fate, while the strikers
are clamoring for n constitution, II has
been impossible TO persuade the striking
printers to resume work, and, therefore,
not a single newspaper except the Official
Messenger will print the momentuous
document for distribution tomorrow. Ar
rangements, however, have been made to
placard the manifesto on every dead wall
In the city, and the text will be telegraphed
tomorrow to every city. town and hamlet
with which there Is telegraphic communi-
cation. 1t also has been ordered read in
all the churches Of the empire.
Embassies Are Notified.
The foreign embassies were notified and
lights are burning late tonight in tho
chancellorles where the news is being put
into cipher. oficial notifications will also
be sent to the Russian ambassadors
abroad.
The effect throughout Russia is expected
to be instantaneous. While the extremists
threaten All attempt TO keep up the present
struggle, the best opinion is that the back
bone Of the strike is broken. but in the
far Count wltte will be able to execute
the heavy task which no has assumed.
Some persons in the government believe
Il will still be necessary to use ball and
cartridge to suppress the present move
ment, but Count Witte appears confident.
He has become the bridge whereby the
people are TO cross to constitutionalism.
witte Selects Cabinet.
~, aIr 40 hou ntot
lected the members Of his cabinet. He will
himself hold no portfolio. All the present
ministers, except those OF war, navy and
foreign affairs, will be retired. Prince
Alexis obelenslSy. one OF the counts former
assistants in the ministry of finance. will
become minister of INTERIOR M. Romanoh,
another former assistant to the minister,
will take the finance portfolio; NJ. Koni,
at present a senator and Russia's ablest
jurist, will be minister OF Justice NJ. Kro-
sovsky president of the st. Petersburg
municipal council. will take the ministry OF
education, and NJ. Seigler Won SchaIhausen,
chief OF the railroad department of the
ministry of finance, will become minister
OF ways and communications.
Crowds Hurrah for Liberty.
Late tonight. after the news got abroad,
crowds began marching up and down the
Nevsky Prospect singing the national hymn
and hurrahing for liberty II is significant
that the great searehlight which has been
lighting up the Nevsky Prospect from the
admiralty tower for three nights was
turned of tonight.
ludicrous incident occurred at midnight
near the university when newsboys with
an extra edition of the Ohicial Messenger
hurried into a crowd of strikers. The in
ba hano Gt,px 8ba 49,
raised an uproarious cheer and the Co.'S
sacks who were patrolling the street. mis-
understanding the import of the demon
stration. and thinking the cries were sedi-
tious. charged and dispersed the workmen
with their whips.
At all the fashionable restaurants wine
was drank in toasts to Liberty and the
Constitution"
Celebration Continues All Night.
ST. PETERSBURG. Oct sl.-s15 a. M
Celebration OF the issuance Of the imperial
manifesto still continues at 8 o'clock this
morning In many streets OF the city, where
crowds are singing the national hymn,
cheering for the emperor and shouting
themselves hoarse. The restaurants and
cafes were closed at o'clock, disgorging
their crowds which had been drinking and
making merry for hours around the tables
TO augment the demonstration In the
thoroughfares. The Cossack patrols were
utterly discounted and COMPOUNDED and
were wholly at a loss to understand the
meaning OF the demonstration or why the
crowds were singing God Save the Emu
peror," Russias magnificent national an
them instead Of the "Marseillaise,"
The people displayed the utmost good
humor towards the Cossaeks. They sur.
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picked riders on the boots, shouting you