Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Abraham Eckert, who was to have ” %een hanged at Wilkesbarre, Pa., fj>r the * ■pnurder of Frederick T. Bittenbender 7, 1895, took poison in his cell and 4 The Superintendent of the New York Building Department reports that 3,200 buildings in that city are unsafe, and de- , dares that every day he expects “to hear «f some awful calamity caused by the falling of buildings.” Willi. A. Meyers’ Milwaukee depnrt- I «neat More, known aa the Boston Store, Was seised by the Sheriff Tuesday morn-

lag on four attachments, aggregating 558,921! Later Mr. Meyers mad >an assignment to George Koch. Mej ers’ kttorney estimates the assets at $171),000 to 5200,000, and the liabilities at SIOO,OOO. A special cable dispatch from London to the New York Sun says that the deadlock, which has been known in Europe as the concert of powers, is broken and the Turk is to be coerced. t The Sultan is to be reduced in fact if not actually in name to the vassalage. His fate will be made known to him at once. Russia, France Great, Britain have decreed it Should he resist or fail to bow at once to the inevitable, then tlje combined fleets of those three powers Will enforce their behest.* Such, in brief, is the infinitely welcome news which will bring relief and" a sense of restored s.elf-respect tq, the whole Christian world.