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PUBLISHED THREE 1 DONE FOR SPITE flcoeeveit Links Senator Tillman With Land Grab OeaL BATTLE HAS BEGUN [ President Gives Out Result of Secret Investigation ? Tillman Admits f Having Tried to Obtain Land in the West?Wanted Sections for Himself, Family and Secretary. . Washington, D. C, Jan. 8.?Presi- \ dent Roosevelt tonight made public J ? the details of an investigation by j p. ? postofflce inspectors and secret ser vice agents of Senator Tillman's con nection with an alleged "land grab" >in Oregan. As he . presents the evi dence to Senator Hale, in response to the latter's request to the heads ? of the various executive departments for a statement of the operations of the secret service, the President un dertakes to show: That Mr. Tillman used his influ ence as a Senator in an effort to force the Government to compel a allroad corporation to relinquisii j t.s control of land grants from the United States in order that he aud his family and his secretary, J. B. Knight, might profit through the purchase of some of the laud; That the Senator used his Gov ernment franking privilege in nu merous instances for the conduct of l private business. m Comparatively few Senators were l-~jfavored with the opportunity of I reading the President's report to L Senator Hale, but those who did read ? the report took a serious view of it, I although mosc of the Seuators re ' fused to believe that Mr. Tillman had ever done anything in violation of his oath as Senator. fSenator Tillman does not permk the fact that the President was giving out the charges against him to alter his determination to make no state ment until Monday. He said that he could not make his reply so com (plete as he would -desire for to morrow's papers* and that he would therefore withhold whatever remarks| he might have to make until Monday, when he would make a statement to, the Senate. No effort was made by | ^?feim to conceal the fact that.when he had learned the facts concerning the railroad grant he had made an ef fort to obtain portions of the land in the names of himself and members of his family, but declared that as. at most, be could have gotten pos session of only a few hundred acres, is efforts were, after all, in behalf of the public and not especially in his own interest. Will Reply Monday. Immediately after the conclusion of the chaplain's prayer Monday Mr. Tillman will ask the recognition of the Chair on a question of personal privilege. Departing from his cus-j torn of extemperaneous speaking, he will read his statement, thus insur ing more careful adherence to what he desires to say than he would be able to give in an offhand speech. The communication to Senator Hale is nearly 3,000 wo>-ds long, and in addition there are appended nu merous exhibits including copies of letters written by Senator Till man and his agent, William E. Lee, showing that they did make an ef fort to secure several quarter sec tions of the Oregan land, and the j reports of the postotfice inspectors who investigated the transactions of the land agents. It was througi this investigation that the allege! interest of Senator Tillman was brought to light, and fatefully, i1. appears, that it was at his insti gation that the inquiry was begun. The President's communication to Senator Hale opens with the state . ment that he had secured for the Senator information touching th.i employment of special attorneys, special agents, inspectors, etc., and the report conveying this informa tion he was transmitting. Then he says that it is "not only the right. f but the duty of Congress to investi Igate the workings of the secret serv ice or detective agents by which alone the .Government can effectually safeguard itself against wrong do ing, punish crime, and bring to jus tice criminals." The President continues: I would like to state here thai very frequently accusations have been made to me privately by mem bers of the two houses to the ef fect that the secret service has h*?en used as a "police of morals,' or to shadow Senators, Congressmen and other public officials. Hitherto the effort to discover the basis for such allegations has always been fruit less. I should be greatly obliged if any information could be furnished me tending to show any instance where this has been done in time? past." The President enters upon a dis cussion of operations of the special agents and inspectors, saying that in the investigation of specific frauds the operators "some times com? across wholly unexpected phases of misconduct." Often, says the Presi dent, the abuse of the franking priv ilege is unknown to the Congress men themselves. The Tillman Matter. Then, leading up to the Tillma-i matter, he says: "But a case has just arisen of a DIMES A WEEK. different kind, which it seems to me I should put before you as illustrat ing in striking fashion the way in which investigations begun by any of these various agents in the strict I line of their duty may develop facts j of high importance, which the in vestigators would not in the flrsi instance have sought do discover, which, when discovered, ought not to be hidden or suppressed, but the development of which may tend tc create an erroneous impression thai the agents in question were being used for purposes not within the line of their lawful duty." The communication then recite-' that Senator Tillman on February 19, last, called the attention of the Senate to the circular of the Oregon land syndicate, which alleged tha'. Senator Tillman was among those who had spoken for a part of the land to be disposed of and quotes Senator Tillman's deal as follow*: "I have not bought any land any where in' the West, nor undertaken to buy any. I have made some in | qulries as one naturally would, in roaming through the West. I simp ly want the people ot the country to be put on notice that this swindler at Portland has no warrant whatev er for endeavoring to inveigle others into his game." Enclosed, the President says, M> Hale would find photographic fac similies of letters and envelopes from Senator Tillman and his agent, Mm. E. Lee, bearing on the matter. A letter of Senator Tillman to Oregon attorneys Is quoted as follows: "I wired from Wausau, Wis., as follows, and write to confirm it: "William E.' Lee, my agent, will see you about land. I want nine quarters reserved. Will forward signed applications and money at once. Members of my family are entrymen. Letter follows. ("Signed) B. R. T." "I write now to say that I wired Mr. Lee, who resides at Moscow, Idaho, to go at once to Marshfield and see you about the land, to locate quarters for the seyen members of my family, who are of age and one for my private secretary. J. B Knight, whom I desire to let into the deal, and, of course, he wants a quarter for himself." "A Good Gamble." "The letter continued," writes the President, "in stating in detail what was to be done In order to enable the Senator to get the land. The Wil liam E. Lee, to whom Senacor Till man thus referred as his agent, wrote to Reeder and Watkins. under date of December 7, a letter, photograph ic copy of which is herewith submit ted, marked 'Exhibit D 4.\ In this letter Mr. Lee explains that he had written Senator Tillman fully as to the status of the land matter, ad vising him It was a good gamble, but that the Senator was lecturing, so that he did not get Mr. Lee's let I ter until a week and a half previous ly. The letter continues: " 'In case Senator Tillman gets in on this deal with some good land in the eight quarters we want, I am satisfied that he can be of great help in getting matters started from Washington and cause the Govern ment to get busy and do something along the line you desire. He will set up such a howl that it will be im possible to do otherwise. It will be very important for your whole scheme to have a man of his influ ence here to aid you at this end of the line. By all means save a lot of good land for us, as we intend to be of more value than any one of the others in this matter.' " Then is quoted Senator Tillman'i resolutions providing for the insti tution of the land suits, after which the President quotes from the Sena tor's letter of February 15 to Messrs Reeder and Watkins. Says the Pres ident: "He states that what he has done in stirring up the question of the Oregon land grant to railroads has been done entirely apart from any personal interest he has in the mat ter, and adds: 'Although I neve would have had my attention called to it but for the investigation as set on foot in connection with the pro posed purchase by me of some of the timber land in qestion. Of course if I decide to make the tender and go into the lawsuit, I will bear your proposition in mind, but I wouid have you understand that nothing I do here in the Senate will be done because of my personal purchase of any of the land. Wanted Eight Sections. "If I can succeed in causing the Government to institute suit for the recovery of the land and make it easier for others as well as myself (the italics are mine) to obtain some of it. I shall do it without regard to the dealings with your firm. I still want to get some of the timber land if it is possible, and as it is probable that Mr. Lee or some other representative of mine will be in your country in the next two months We will leave the matter of payment for the initiatory steps and subse quent proceedings in abeyance for the present. Any contract we mlgh1: make will be entirely apart from, and independent of, my work here in the Senate. I would be glad for you to hold in reserve eight of the best quarter sections of which you have definite information, and I will in the meantime press the in vestigation and other work here which will facilitate the final pur chase, and in effect obviate the ne cessity of your taking any case n the courts at all.' "This letter, purely pertaining to Mr. Tillman's personal and private (Continued on page 3.) ORASTGEBURG, S. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1909. TILLMAN ANSWERS ROOSEVELT The Senator Refutes the Slanderous Charges Made Against Him By the President. AND HITS HIM SOME VERY HARD LICKS IN RETURN. THE SENATOR SHOWS THAT THERE IS NOTHING IN THE CHARGE MADE AGAINST HIM AND SAYS HE IS READY TO COMPARE RECORDS WITH THE OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AT ANY TXME?THE SPEECH DEALS IN STUBBORN FACTS WHICH ARE CONVINCING TO ANY UNPREJUDICED PERSON OR PERSONS. Washington, Jan. 11.?The fol lowing the full text of the speech delivered in the United States Sen ate today by Senator Tillman in an swer to President Roosevelt's slan derous charge about the Oregon land deal. The speech was delivered to a crowded Senate. The Senator's entire speech is printed below: Mr. President, I rise to a question of personal privilege. For the first time in the history of this government, as far as I have been able to learn, a member of this body has been brought to the bar of public opinion, before the Senate itself to be judged under indictment by no less a person than the Presi dent of the United States. The manner of the doing of its and the animus and zeal displayed by the Chief Executive are worthy of con sideration. The papers in the case were sent to Se?ator Hale as acting chairman of the Committee on Appropriations late on Tuesday last. I had no in timation in regard to it until after the Senate met on Thursday. By that time the air was thick with rumors, evidently coming from thi White House, directly or indirectly, that a Southern Senator was in the toils of the Secret Service; and soon it was understood that Senator Till man was the man. Having beeu informed by Senator Hale of the character of the charge Thursday afternoon, and that he would call a meeting of the Appro priation Committee on Saturday to consider the papers relating to the Secret Service sent him by the Presi dent, I expected to have opportuni ty to examine fully into the case and make such defense or explana tion in the Senate itself as I thought proper. I understand the President had notified Senator Hale that there was no need for hurry, and that he would not give the papers to the press before Monday; but on Friday morning he changed his mind and notified Senator Hale that he had determined to give all the facts to the newspapers that evening, and they appeared Saturday morning. It was well to remember that the uni versal custom heretofore, and the courtesy due by any executive to a legislative body demuaded that hav ing sent the papers to the most im portant committee of the Senate, they were in the possession of that body, and it was a gross breach of propriety to make them public. This well illustrates the executive atti tude towards this body. He gave the communication to the press be fore the committee had seen the papers and examined into the mat ter. It is well undorstood that the President is an adept at advertising and that he has used the press with more skill than any man in Ameri can politics. He realizes the im portance of "getting in the first blow," though it was below the belt and might well convict him of cow ardice. But he cared nothing for either courtesy, custom, or decency, thus treating the committee and the Senate with that contempt which has been his wont. Another probable reason for his great haste was that he sought to distraot attention from the action of the House of Representatives on Friday in laying part of his message on the table by the sensational ac cusations against a man who has had long service in the Senate. I could have made my statement to the Senate and to the country just ai easily on Saturday as I make it now. for I have nothing to conceal and there was no grcnt need for de lay or preparation; but 'realizing that the great influence and power of the Chief Executive was being ex erted to the limit of his ability to blacken my name and destroy my character, and that his words and the exhibits which he sent would be giv en the widest publicity, while my own statement would probably bo epitomized on account, of the pressure on the wires, I decidtd to wait until today, with the hope that my de fense, without being unavoidably mutilated, would reach the people in good time. This, the newspaper men tell me, would not have been possible on Saturday. This is suf ficient explanation, I trust, for de lay. An examination of the President's letter to Mr. Hale, which might just as weli have been a special message of the type with which we are so fa miliar, will show that the President's charges, boiled down, amount to two In number. First. He promotes me to mem bership in the "Ananias Club," and charges, in effect, that I have delib erately lied to the Senate. Second. He charges that I have exerted my official Influence and worked as a Senator lor my personal benefit alone to secure the passage1 of a resolution and to press the De partment of Justice to bring suit against the corporations which holr1 so much of the public domain in the West and will not sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants from the Government. He has prepared his indictment with consummate ability and skill. He is even cunning iii| the apparent ly innocent pretence that in making a search through the Secret Service for one kind of malefactor he had run down another, and the case of that one of such serious importance that his sense of official obligation compelled him to prompt action. Mark you, he has been In the posses sion of all the fact:! in this case since July last, and men will be cu rious to know why, if his zeal was honest, he did not make them known then. The President announced in his special message to the House on January 4. I have made-no charge of cor ruption against Congress nor against any member of tlr* present House. If I had proof ?f such : corruption affecting any member of the House in any matter as to which the Federal Government has jurisdiction, action would at once be brought. * * * * This would simply be doing my duty in the execution and en forcement of the laws without respect to persons. But I do not regard it as within the province or duties of the President to re port to the House "alleged de linquencies" of members, or the supposed "corrupt action" of a member "in his official capacity." It therefore follows that he has found no g/ounds for indicting me in the courts, which, no doubt, would have rejoiced him overmuch, and all this fuss, fury, and fustian about the seriousness of the case and the gravity of the offense with which he charges me can be attributed to per sonal malice alone. On January 4 the President de clared what he conceived to be hi.s relationship to the House and that he would not do certain things. On January 5 he wrote a letter to Sena tor Hale, doing the very thing ia regard to a Senator which he had declined to do toward a member of the House. Why this difference? ' In my public work here I have not hesitated to criticise and comment on the official actions and utterances of I President Roosevelt, and I have doubtless given him good cause to seek revenge. I have at various times arraigned him in the Senate for tyranical invasion of the rights of Congress, for usurpation of au thority not given him by the Con stitution, for disobedience of the law and neglect of duty, and particularly In the case of Mrs. Morris, for brutal and cruel conduct toward a helpless woman. I was not aware that these darts of mine had quivered in t'ae Executive hide and stung him so, but the eagerness and intensity with which he has presented his case against me, his making a precedent where none has existed heretofore, his taking from the committee to which he had forwarded them the papers and giving them to the press before thai committee had consid ered them, indicate that Theodora Roosevelt enjoys to the limit the feeling of getting even with Ben Tillman, and lays on the big stick with the keenest relish, doubtless believing that the pitchfork has gone out of business. In his letter to Senator Hale I find on page ?, the following: But a case has just arisen of a different kind, which it seems to me I should put before you as il lustrating in striking fashion the way In which investigations be gun by any of these various agents in the strict line of their duty may develop facts of high impor tance, which the investigators would not in the first instance have sought to discover, which, when discovered, ought not to be hidden or suppressed, but the de velopment of which may tend to create an erroneous impression that the agents in question were being used for purposes ?not within the line of their lawful duty. It is well to note that the Presi dent recognizes the extraordinary character of his action as well as the unlawful use he has made of the Secret Service. He pretends that his case against me has been worked up by accident, by reason of the discov ery o:.' the Inspectors in investigating I the fraduluent transactions of one i Bryon R. Door, and that the facts "ought not to be hidden or suppress ed." The President says: Senator Tillman denied the statements of this circular, and expressed a wish for an investiga tion; and on his request the Post oflice Department, through its in spectors, made such an investiga tion. He stated in reference to this circular: "I have not bought any land anywhere in the West nor under taken to buy ^any. I have made some inquiries, a3 one naturally would, in roaming through the West. I simply , want the people of the country to be put on notice that this swindler at Portland has no warrant whatever for endeav oring to inveigle others into his game." The President then goes on to state: This is a confidential report of a type usually not furnished, but in this case the matter is so se rious that 1 feel I should put it before you. I enclose you also as exhibits' Dl, D2, D4 and D5, photographic fac-similies of let ter.? and envelopes and telegrams from Senator Tillman and his agent, William E. Lee. ? I do not deny the authenticity of the letter or the telegram, of which pholographs were made. I presume the letter from William E. Lee is also a correct copy, but I was not aware of its existance until now, and I am not in anywise respon sible for Mr. Lee's ideas expressed in it. The President says: On October 20, 1907, Senator Tillman wrote a leter (Exhibit D3) to Messrs. Reeder & Wat kins, of Marshfield, Oreg., who were attorneys representing peo ple who were applicants for the purchase of certain wagon-road and grant land; Dorr was a land agent making his filings through Reeder & Watkins. Senator Till man's letter runs, in part, as fol lows: "I wired you from Wausau, Wis., as follows, and write to con flr a it; 'William, E. Lee, my agent, will see you about land. I want nine quarters reserved. Will forward signed applications and money at once. Members of my family are entrymen. Letter follows. (Signed) B. R. T. I write now to say I wired Mr. Lee, who resides at Moscow, Idaho, -to go at once to Marshfield and see you about the land, to locate quarters for the seven members of my family who are of age, and one for my private secretary, J. R. Knight, whom I desire to let into the deal, and, of course, he wants a quarter for himself." The letter continued, stating in detail what was to be done, in order to enable the Senator to get the land. It will be noted that I accused Dor in the Senate of being a swindler and asked the Postoffice Department to issue a fraud order against him Dorr declared in his circular: So sure is Senator Tillman of onr success that he has subscribed and paid the necessary fees for a quarter section for himself and 10 other quarter sections for 10 of his nearest relatives. It was this bold and outrageous falsehood, mainly, that, caused me t:> denounce Dorr as a swindler, as well as to declare in the Senate that he had no warrant for the asser tion. The sleuths which the Presi dent put upon my trail have made tl-.eir report, and a perusal of it will ihow to any fair mind that so far from endeavoring to justify |th3 fraud order against Dorr, they were really put to work to investigate me. and endeavor, if possible, to discover something to my discredit, while the President directed the in vestigation. I say this becanes it is hardly possible that, a postoffice inspector won id set about getting photographich copies of the latter of a United States Senator and trying ;o convict him of lying if the orders did not come from a high source. Let us suppose for a moment tha4 I I was guilty of a falsehood in dc (Continued on page 2.) TWC LIVED UNDER RUINS. A MAN AND WIPE CAME FROM UNDER DEBRIS. Three Children Also Saved After Be ing Buried for Seven Days?Large Sum of Money Found. Reggio, Jan. 8.?The sun shone again today in all its splendor, em phasizing the beauties of nature in the surrounding country?along the mountains covered with green, over the vineyards and lemon groves and down the smiling shore where it re flected in the opalescent sea. Inside Reggio, however, its warms rays feU upon only huge piles of debris. Proportionately with other towns. Reggio gave the highest percentage of orphans as a result of the earth quake. The boys were eagerly tak en care of by relations, but the girls were mostly abandoned. Fortunate ly, however, they have been entrust ed to the ladies' committees, which arrived here from all parts of Italy ?and doubtless will secure good homes. All the wounded have been re moved from Reggio, and 8,000 re fugees have departed from the towr. One thousand bodies have been dug from the ruins of fallen buildings and burned in impro\ised cemeter ies. Among others who escaped unin jured when the shock came were three children, who after hav ing been buried in the debris of their home for seven days, got out unaided, burrowing like mice. A man and his wife also have been found uninjured beneath ruins where they had lain for eight days; subsisting on a pint of olive oil. The safe of the bank of Italy, con taining $3,000,000, has been found. HITS TEDDY HARD. House Laid Part of His Message on the Table. Washington, Jan. 8.?Having given consideration to the president's further views regarding the secret, service, contained ,In ,his message to the house of representatives last Monday, the special committee ap pointed to deal with the subject brought in its final report Friday. Accompanying it was a resolution which declared it to be the sense of the house that it ?hall decline to consider any communication from any source which is not respectful, recommending ithat the objectional portion of the president's annual message be laid on the table and that similar action be taken with respect to the message of Monday, because of its being "Unresponsive to the inquiry of the house," as to what the president meant when he said, referring to the limitation placed upon the fiele of operation of the Secret Service, that ' The chief argument in fuvor of the pro vision was that the congressmen did not' themselves wish to be investi gated." The resolution was adopt ed by a large majority. * STONED PEDDLER TO DEATH. School Boys Arrested m St. I>_>uis on Murder Charge. St. Louis, Jan. S.?Five boys, ranging in age from eight to seven teen years, were arrested in their class rooms in the Shaw school to day; charged with the murder of Wm. W?chter, a peddler, who was found with his skull crushed Wed nesday. The man was found dying by neighbors. He kept so much to him self that he was known in his neigh borhood as a miser and hermit. The arrests followed information given to the police by Mrs. Mary Goebehart, mother of two of the prisoners. The boys told the police that they had stoned W?chter "just for fun." * BRO. CHARLES FALLS OUT. With His Preacher on Account of Bro. Bill's Religion. Cincinnati, Jan. 9.?Charles P. Taft has severad his eonnection with the Presbyterian church of the Cov enant as a result of a letter written by the pastor, Rev. R. L. Watson, during the national political cam paign. In his letter of resignation. Mr. Taft also asked to be released as one of those guaranteeing the sal ary of the pastor. Tin? action of Charles P. Taft was the outgrowth of estrangement between himself and Dr. Watson, which had its origin in a personal letter written to a Chicago minister by Dr. Watson some time previous to the presidential election, in which the latter express ed regret at the liberal religious views of the presidential candidate, William II. Taft. Questions Right of Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. ?By a viv-i voce vote the Senat-) today passed Senator Culberson's resolution in structing the committee on the ju diciary to report to the Senate wheth er president was authorized to per mit the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Unit ed States Steel Corporation. * N/O H/0 ) CENTS PER COPY. COTTON GINNED Censes Bureau Reports Over Twelve Million Bales TO JANUARY FIRST South Carolina Reports 1,170,743 Rales as Her Share Up to That Time?The Indications Now Are That the Total Crop. Will Be Over Thirteen Million Bales. Washington, Jan. ?The census bureau today reported 12,470,226 running bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 190S to January 1 las:, against 9,951.505 a year ago, and 27,386 ginneries operated against 27,276 a year ago. The percentage of the whole crop ginned to January 1 is 90 per cent for 1909, and 90.4 for 1908. The report includes 231,821 round bales and S6.016 sea island bales for 1909. It counts round bales as half bales and excludes linters. The cotton ginned to January 1, 1907 and 1906, was 11,711.039 and 9, 725,426 bales respectively. Th3 total crop of 1907 was 11,057,822, of which 92.7 per cent was ginned to January 1. The crops of 190$ and 1905 were 12,<*S3,201 and 10, 499,105 respectively. The running bales ginned by States to January 1 last, and gin neries respectfully follow: Alabama, 1.304,324 and 3,467. Arkansas. 911,123 and 2,118. Florida, 66,808 and 2.55. Georgia, 1,933,956 and 4,453. Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexi co, 1,672 and 6. Louisiana, 456,1 88 and 1,691. Mississippi, 1,518.707 and 3,465. Missouri,-53,929 and 78. North Carolina, 646,731 and 2, 471. Oklahoma, 584,44!) and 986. South Carolina, 1,176,743 and 3,219. Tennessee, 317,343 and 646. Texas, 3,486.510 and 4,147. Virginia, 12,143, and 114. There were 179,694 round bales and 73,425 sea isiand bales for 1908 and 255.566 round bales and 54, 275 sea island bales for 1907. The distribution of sea island cot ton for 1909 follow?.: Florida, 32,798; Georgia, 41,037; South Carolina, 12,1 SI. The correct statistics of the quan tity of cotton ginned to December 13 last are 11,904,269 bales. MURDERED BY THE MINISTER Who Was Supposed to Have Been KiLed Himself. Fort Huro.., Mich., Jan. 8.?By means of two false teeth it was de finitely established this afternoon that Gideon Browning, of Adair vil lage, was the man who was butch ered last Tuesday evv-ning in the lit tle "Rattle Run" Methouist church in Columbus Township. With part of the mystery which enshrouded the brutal crime thus cleared, the supervisor of St. Clair county im mediately offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of the Rev. John H Carmichael, of Adair, pastor of the church, and the man who was at first supposed to have been killed, dismembered and then burned in the church stove. It is supposed that he was demented. * FOUND HIM GUILTY. Failed to Practice What He Claimed to Preach. Spartanburg, Jan. S.?S. S. Tin^r, president of the Law and Order League, at Pacolet, and who was a candidate for the Legislature in the last election, was convicted of manslaughter and carryin concealed weapons today. Sentence has not been imposed. Tiner killed Ed Kirby at Pacolet several weeks ago. Tiner prosecuted Kirby for drunk enness, and when Kirby cursed him Tiner threw an iron weight at Kirby. The latter then drew a knife and ad vanced when Tiner pulled a pistol and fired several shots into Kirby. * Birthday of Italy's Queen. Rome, Jan. 11.?The thirty-sixth birthday of the queen was celebrat ed throughout Italy Friday, Jan. 8. in a quiet manner. Owing to thn gloom cast over the country by the catastrophe in Sicily and Calabria, no festivities were held. The queen spent the dav quietly with her hus band and family at the Quirinal. ? Stood the Shocks. Reggio, Jan. 8.?At Sinopoll all the houses were destroyed except three, built after the earthquake in 1905, of hollow brick, with a wire passing through them and uniting them in a vertical line while at the top, and wire united the different lines horizontally, thus making tho whole building compact. * Fresh Shocks. Regsio, Jan. S.?Fresh earth quake shocks are being felt here, at Rracaleone and Messii-a each night. They are preceded by explosions, and buildings that were not totally de stroyed in the big shocks are being further damaged. *