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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-12
wilson Returns
To the White House But There
Will Be No Meeting of
the Cabinet Today.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Presi-
dent Wilson, returning from Cornish,
N. n. reached the White House short
ly after $3.50 a. m. today. He coz
ferred with Secretary Lansing on the
Mexican, .Haitfen and other foreSgn
situations.
1t was announced at the White
House there would be no cabinet
meeting tomorrow. The president has
determined that pending matters in
the various departments are not In
shape for general discussion with his
ADVISORS as yet.
After his conference with Secretary
Lansing Mr.. Wilson was to see sec
rotary Garrison Of the war depart
ment and Secretary Daniels or the
navy to take up questions of nation
.al defense.
The situation along the Mexican
border in Texas, where raiders nave
attacked American ranches ana sew
eral Americans have been killed, was
also expected to figure N the corner
ence with Secretary Garrison.
Secretary Lansing's conference with
the president lasted anghour. He said
afterward that the situation was un-
changed and the appeal to the Next
cans would be sent as soon as arrange
ments for its transmission had been
made.
Mr. Lansing said ne had no an
nouncement to make as to any OF the
other foreign problems confronting the
government.
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So That the Many Will Not Be
Injured for the Benefit
Of the Few.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. The
question whether the public utilities
should be assessed for taxation by
public service commissions occupied
some Of the attention Of the National
Conference on Taxation mere tocaye
F. N. Fletcher, of Reno. Nevada, a
former member of the Nevada state
Tax Commission, sketched the deve1-
opment OF the public utilities. a1Iud-
Ing to sthe startling emcIency now
shown as compared with the-prev1ous
wasteful Individual EFFORT, and said
that this ef1ciency was carrying with
1t enormous profits OF which the pup-
lie had paid little attention.
he dismissed the suggestion that
public utilities under strict regu.A=
ton. should not be taxed at an ny
noting that In such case q part OF
the public would be benefited at the
expense OF a larger part not served
by the utility and the loss IN taxes
would have to be made up by osaer
property on . wholly unrarr proper
don. The same reasoning ne con-
tended would apply to municipal
ownership unds or atch g schea pentns
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BIG Day
On the Coffman Farm in Ten
mile District When a Lime
PuIveF Starts.

Possibly the most important meet
ing, 50 far as agriculture Is concerned.
that was ever held in the county took
place on the farm Of J. F. Conman.
in the Tenmile district this week.
The object Of the meeting was to
see the lime pu1yerizer recently pur-
chased by Drummond and Gerard
Brothers started.
the machine has acapacity of from
two to three tons per hour. It is run
by twenty-horse power traction
steam engine and 1t win Improve
more acres of land than any machine
ever brought into the county. Tnere
is absolutely no excure for farmers
now having lime shipped into this
county.
More than $50 people were In at
tendance upon the meeting and all ex-
pressed themselves pleased with the
meeting. Other meetings OF the Kind
will be held in other sections later.
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FOREIGNERS SAGE
81 the City Of Vera Cruz Gables
General Carranza to His
Consular Agent.
~ AnaoclArrn. R.n.nan,

GALVESTON. Aug.
statement that foreigners In
Cruz are In danger Is false.
Constitutionalist government g1araI
tees life and property 20 individuals
of whatever nationality. =
blegram signed by General Carranz
and received here this morning
Juan T. Burns, his Consular agent
Another cablegram from eJSnS
Acuna, Carranzista minister of Ton
eign, lions In Vera Cruz &4s
nits that suburbantte omcials mad
speech the other day In which
peace conference participated In 81,
the United States and Iatfn-A America
countries was sharply criticised
speech was denounced by higher
cials and was made without SancNQl
of the Carranza government. the
spatches say.
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GREAT BATTLE on ROAD To- EIR0GI2AD IS D.
BR0ADDlJS
Garduate TO Deliver a Sermon
Sunday at the First Bap-
fist Church.

q. Worthy Kemper, a young man
who is making rapid strides In the
ministerial profession, will be In the
rulpit and deliver a sermon Sunday
morning In the First Baptist church.
Mr.. Kemper is graduate Of Broad
dus institute, having attended 1t
when 1t was situated here and hav-
ing received his diploma In the
church In which he viii preach Sun
day. He has many friends here who
will be glad of the opportunity to
hear him preach.
Mr.. Kemper is now pastor of a
Baptist church in Minneapolis. MINI,
and Ia meeting with. marked success
in hiswork there. AT present he is
taking a well earned vacation and
is visiting his parents and other rel
atives near Weston.
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KNOX KILLED
When His Air Machine Falls
and His Assistant is in
Hospital Now
CAV AssoeIATRn PRess,

FORT SILL. Okla. Aug. r.
sQuartermaster Captain George II.
Knox, of the First Aero squadron,
was killed and Lieut.. R. ID. Sutton.
his aide, probably fatally injured to-
day when an aeroplane in which they
were flying fell 500 feet.
The aviators assembled about 9
O'Clock. They had been aloft but a
few minutes when the aeroplane was
observed to be falling. Captain Knox
and his aide made deperate efforts to
control the machine. Knox was In
stantly killed. Sutton was hurried to
Army hospital. where an operation
was performed in an effort to saya
his life. What caused the accident has
not been learned.
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BA ION GOF
TO NSVIL,
BENEFIT
Performance Held at Theatel
for the Clark burg Italian
Marine Band.

The Clarksburg Itaiian Marine
band gave people Of the city another
treat Wednesday evening by parading
through streets playing fine music and
also by giving concerts In front or the
Odeon theater. The occasion was q
performance for the benent Of the
band. 1t was largely attended and
the band members are tnankfuI 70
their many friends for the support
given. a like benefit performance 1s
to be given later at the same thearer,
when some special moving pictures of
the Italo- Austrian war are to be
shown.
The band is making splendid pro-
gress with It's music and whenever #
makes public appearance praise ts
heard on all sides over its excellent
and artistic playing. There were FOR
Ity-four instruments In it Wednesday
evening, but the manager, James
Burgess, says that other instruments
are being added and that It Is planned
to bring the total up to sixty. The
organization makes STRIKING appear
ance in neat uniforms or navy pIue
and white.
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GERMAN FORCES
GOING FORWA
TRUSTEES
of Wesleyan College Gather
Here for Purpose of Elect
ing a President.

For the purpose of elcting pres
ident of West Virginia Wesleyan
College at Buckhannon to succeed
the Rev. Carl G. Doney. who re-
signed several months ago to take
similar position in Montana, the
board of trustees of that institution
went into special session late
Thursday afternoon at the First
Methodist Episcopal church here.
The situation in regard to the pres
dency is N rather complex condf-
ton at present as the Rev. Frank Nc
Daniel. president of the Pennington
school for boys at Pennington, n. j..
who was elected by the board and
who decided not to accept has re-
considered his action and Withdrawn
his declination. In the meantimo
applications have been filed by
number of able men. After sa.ting
the question of zlse presidency, the
trustees will look after routine mat
tiers of the college and make plans
for the Forthcoming term.
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But General Funston Makes
No Request for Add
tional Troops.
ORGANIZERS ARE ar WORK
MeMcans Are Reported as Be-
ing Aligned under 6 Plan
Of San DIEGO. Z
an Aeso n. pRras,

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1e.-Generll
Funston reported today that he ~
sent battalion OF the Ninth infapk
from Laredo to Brownsyille. lie made
no request, however, for additional
troops in response to Secretary GAR
sons message yesterday saying II 81
all mobile forces not now on the bnr
der would be sent 10 Texas e needed
discuss reports that secret oreaniz eS
In Texas were aligning Mexieans
der the "pfan of San Diego W91ethAE
General Funston has communic&
Fthees reports was not disclosed:
was apparent, however, that he IN
decided to concentrate considerabaas
force in the Brownsville district, where
the trouble appears to center.
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VILLA WILLING
For a Truce for Three Months
in Order to Hold Peace
Conference.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-General
Villa has informed the United States
government that he Is willing to sign
q truce of three months or more
duration with his opponents during
which time peace conference shall
be held.
General Villa who has been in con
ference at Ell Paso and Juarez with
Maof General Scott chief of stan of
the United States army, and American
consular agents. has expressed in a
definite way his willingness to do any
thing that might bring about an early
eminent agents at the border today.
Villa is understood to have ordered
his commanders to avoid fighting,
evacuating places threatened with at
tack as evidence of a sincere desire
to make peace
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OFFICER
of NorthyieW is Arrested by
the Marion County
Authorities.

Charged with false pretenses, in
that he represented to a Fairmont at
torney that he was the owner Of real
estate here. Joseph Crispeno. an
italian of Northview. is prisoner in
the Marion county jail, awaiting q
hearing before Justice NJ. r. Musgrove
of Fairmont. Constable Charles Sat
.terdeld came here from Fairmont
Wednesday and arrested Cusepno.
Several weeks ago Crispeno was
arrested in Fairmont on charge of
carrying steel knuckles. He was ac-
Quilted of the charge. Crispeno's at
torney in this case alleges that Girls
peno represented 70 him that he was
the owner Of real estate In Clarksburg.
and gave him a note for 500 in pay
ment of attorney fees. When the note
fell due and was not paid, the attor-
ney made an investigation and alleges
that Crispeno owns no real estate here.
It was reported in F'airmont paper
that Crispeno was membe. Of the
local police force. At the police de-
partment this was denied, but it was
stated that Crispeno was connected
with the police department OF North
view.
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FRENCH STATEMENT
OF WAR OPERATIONS
tsY AssociArro raK8s,

PARIS, Aug. 12.-The French war
office today gave out q report on the
progress OF the war reading as fol-
lows:
There was last night in the Artois
district cannonading and fighting with
bombs in the vicinity of Souchez.
Elm the Argonne the enemy last
night delivered two attacks against
our trenches in the region of Marie
Therese and near Fontaine-au1-
Charmes but they were completely re-
pulsed.
IN the forest OF LIE Pretre there was
fairly spirited fighting from trench to
trench with hand grenades and heavy
IN the vosges near Linge the Ger
mans delivered an attack but were re-
pulsed after fighting in which hand
grenades were used.
..There has been nothing on the re-
masnder of the front"
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Fast Freight Train Crashes
into a Pythian Party's
Special Train.
esv AssoeiATap pREss,

COLUMBIA. Aug. 12.-Four per-
sons were killed and more than 9
score were injured. some of them
seriously, early today when a loaded
freight train crashed into special
train bearing party Of members 81
the knights of Pythias lodge of Mt
Sterling, o., many Of them accom-
panied by their wives or other mem
bers Of their families
The accident occurred at Orient
Station on the Baltimore and Ohio
southwestern railroad. thirteen miles
southwest of Columbus. The excur-
sfonists were returning from an an;
.nlal outing ct Cedar Point. The ex:
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DIES Suddenly
News Of Death Of j. E.steeI at
Rochester, Pa, is Re-
ceived Here.

J. g. Steel, son of John R Steel,
OF this city, died suddenly this morn
ing at his home in Rochester, Pa.
according to message received by
relatives here. The cS1se of his
death was not stated.
The deceased man is survived by
his wife, his father and one sister,
Mrs. G.. F. Grumbine, of this city.
Funeral arrangements have not YET
been made.
Mr.. Steel had been engaged in the
plumbing business at Rochester fol
several years. He was chief OF the
local fire department at one time.
and had many friends here, who
were grteved at the news of his
John r. Steel. father Of the de
ceased man, is former city treas
'urer.
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CUTS THROAT
in a Moment of Dependency
and Falls Dead at His
Wife's Feet.

ELKINS, Aug. I'm moment
of dependency, Isaac Tingler. a
farmer, who lives at the Sinks, near
iGlady, aged 48, committed suicide
by slashing his throat with pen
knife. Aften building a fire he re
turned to bed. and before his wife
could intercept him had inflicted a
number of wounds. With blood
flowing from the wounds. he ran
from the home and returning to the
house fell and expired in the pres
ence of his wife. His mother ended
her life by suicide and his sister was
committed to an asylum
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GERMANS ARE IN NEED
OF NEW TROOPS NOW
nv Aeaoe,ATEn pRras,
ia Paris aug

GENEVA, via Paris, Aug. IA
despatch to the Gheva Tribune from
innsbruck, capitas OF the Austrian Ty-
rol, says.
pended on the Kovo-Suwalki-GFod o
front because or lack or reeniorce-
ments, no new troops having arrived
since August a.
THE Russian offensive at Kovno is
of the greatest importance as the Ger
man first line troops. chiefly Prus-
sian landwehr. suffered terrible losses
August 8 and g. In this section, as
well as in the region between Lomza
and the Bug it is said that many reg
iments are much below the average
In strength
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AIRSHIP RAID
Is Made by French Aviators
and Eight Civilians Are
Killed or Wounded.

LONDON, Aug. Ia wireless de-
spatch from Berlin says that E'reneh
sbruecken and Saint IngDert, killing
or wounding eight civilians The
property damage was small.
The raid was made over Rhemnish,
|Bayae. Sweibruecken Is town of
.Palantine, about sixty-nve mIles
northeast Of Nancy. It Is q manu-
featuring town of some 1900 In
|habitants.
st. Inkbert is, about twelve miles
west OF Sweibruecken. It Is near
which was bonn baTded
BY French aeroplanes on Monday. 4
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FARMERS MEETING.

County Agent w. d. linn will dis
cuss lime and commercial fertilizers
at the court house meeting at 2
O'Clock Saturday afternoon. Farmers
having limestone that they think of
having ground should bring a small
sample or several small samples, the
size of walnut in to the meeting and
the agent will have them analyzed.
Before buying fertilizers farmers
should consult the agent for he Is
able to tell what they should use.
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LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Baltic
flank of the German armies under
Field MARSHAL Won Hindenburg has
virtually attained the banks of the
river Dyina between Riga ana
Dvinsk with Petrograd less than 900
miles away In direct line.
Thence southwark the line sweeps
west with the Russian fortress OF
Kovno still holding out but next
week may see a great battle on lne
road toward the Russian capital.
The second line OF defense upon
which the Russians proposed to fall
back after abandoning Warsaw has
all the appearances Of having peen
rendered untenable and the British
and Russian press is beginning to see
in the Austro-German an ambitious
plunge deeper into Russia with Pc
trograd the goal.
IN the meantime the Russian rear
guards are fighting desperately espe-
cialIy in the critical pvtna region and
at Kovno, to capture which the Ger
mans are making a terrific sacrthce
of men.
It seems plain the Germans pro-
pose no great demonstration IN the
West but intend rather to press 70
the utmost their brilliant snccsssius
Russian campaign on the theory tina.
conditions in France or Belgium are
such that neither the FRENCH AoE StAAo
British will attempt general on en-
sive.
During the 1ull in activity on the
front IN France and Belgium the
British public 9. .ooking to the Oar
danelles to bring the relief Russia
so badly needs though the task OF
opening the straits remains difficult
problem, which some think may only
be solved by change In the Balkan
situation. Both Germany and the
entente powers are exerting the
hardest pressure on Bulgaria as that
country is considered to be the key
to the situation.
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CATTLE 60 BLIND
,In a Michigan County as a Re.
suit of a New MaIady in
That Section.

LANSING, Mich. Aug. Pug
killing cattle in Saginaw county,
members of the state 1--we stock san1-
ataRE com Retep we're ii q with
another new problem e
report was received from lStandtsh,
tArenaccounty, that cattle IN that vi
cfnity are being stricken blind. In
spectors have been sent to Stand1sh
to diagnose this new naalady n
Federal authorities. have placed a
Temporary quarantine on cattle In
ESaginaw county.
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TO REBUILD.

MONTGOMERY. Aug. IL: The
Knights OF Pythias lodge has ar
ranged to rebuild its lodge and bus
mess building. just destroyed by fire
together with Hooper and Edward, s
undertaking establishment ana MISS
loss Of Si2. 900. The ground floor
of the Pythian building was occupied
by Tahiti Brothers produce store,
which was three-fourths DESTROYED.
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TAKES ! < POISON
las Result of Worry over the
Possibilities Of War with
the Mexicans.
tor AssociATEo pREss,

CHICAGO. Aug 12.@Ndrs. Caroline
lieutenant in the regular army stat
toned on the Mexican border. took
poison today but is said to have a
lighting chance of recovery. Her faith
er is said to be George w. West, a
ranchman of 81 Campo, Tex. Green's
full name could not be learned by the
police At the house where Mrs. Green
boarded It was said that the woman
worried over possibilities of war with
Mexico in which her husband might
be exposed to death.
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CRUISER JUPITER rs q
ORDERED TO VERA CRU

WASHINGTON. Aug. lathe COZ
today from Newport, r. 4 ana
cruiser Denver on the west cu&1k Of
Mexico was ordered into resaSHof at.
Mare island. The Albany. now MI
serve, will take the Denyer's 81
In the Pacific feet.
The gunboats Annapolis and YORK
town reached Acapulco, Mexico, tod5Ss
and the cruisers Chattanooga end
arrived at San Bias and Mulaee
spective1y.
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CAMP Is GROWING.

clarksburg camp No. 9 OF the Wood
men OF the World initiated j. w. Haw-
kins and elected F. NJ. Owens, s. D.
Kyle, j. q. Rebrook, II. r. Calvert, w.
n. Young, Ira Robinson, Edgar Bryant,
John Mertz, j. L. Peterson and DR.. w.
p. Owens TO membership at a well At
tended meeting Wednesday night.
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KILLED By TRAIN.

:MARTINSBURG. Aug. 12.- Stepping
from an approaching passenger train.
Charles Barth1ow, quarryman of
Berkeley Place, walked in front of a
moving freight train and was killed
at the Bulls Eye bridge near here. He
was As years old and leaves family.
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MISSING FRoM THE cITY.

John =. Kelley, senior member OF
Kelley Brothers, successful contract
ors. and family mysteriously disap-
speared from the city at an early
hour Thursday morning. It IS
strongly suspected that they went. 70
Atlantic City and their return at the
end OF two or three weeks is ex-
nected
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NoRTHcoTT May ENTER.

HUNTINGTON, Aug. 12-It is
of the week. G. A. Northcott, Re
publican, will enter the race for the
gubernatiorial nomination. MI.
Northcott admits that he has been
receiving calls from various parts OF
the state to become candidate. and
his formal announcement would Gre
ate no great surprise here.
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.MAUsER RIFLES ARE
FOUND NEAR MEReED|E:
az Aa u entaaI

# CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Aug.
quantity OF Mauser rifles today
found concealed under brush by RANK
iers and troops near Mercedes a6co1:
ing to word brought here.
ties that the Mexican raiders ar Oh
ganized with the assistance Of Next
cans from across the Rio Grant, The
equipment is said to be similar t. that
used by the Carranza forces.
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VETERANS REUNION.
n .,.-e-,AYr eRres,

t1YAssoclATEo eREes' n - w
CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. u
The annual outing of the Veteran
Employees Association OF the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad was held a
Berkeley Springs. w Va. TO-DAY.
Veterans from all points, between
Cumberland and Baltimore. espectal-
~ Martinsburg, w. Va. were IN at
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YOUNG no ArrEND.

CHARLES TOWN, Aug. 12.-Brigg
S. Young. Of Ada. o., supreme chan
cellor Of the knights Of Pythias in the
United States, will attend the annual
convention of the grand lodge Of West
Virginia Pythians to be held here Au-
gust Is to %, extensive local prepara-
tions for which are under way.
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ABANDON COUNTRY.

taY AssoeiATEo rREss'
-According to despatch received
iby the Lausanne Gazette from Tifiis
under date Of August 10, 225.OOO
Armenians have abandoned their
country with the retreating Russian
army and are taking refuge In Trans
Gaucasia.
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HosPITAL CANDIDATE.

Persea Vtctora. an italian exam
med by the county lunacy board ane
sent to the county infirmary June -
has been brought to jail and Is being
given q supplementary examlna tion
hospital at Weston
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PYLE TO ENTER.

PARKERsBURG. Aug. 12 Polit-
ical gossip has it here that s. G.
pyle, prominent banker of Sisters
vile. is to enter the race for the Re-
publican nomination for Congress In
the Fourth district.
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MR.. HARDaIAN a VISITOR:

O.sW. o. Hardman, OF sdiddlehouf
q prominent and Influential Tyasf
county Republican IS q city visitor y
attend the Wesleyan College board
trustees meeting. He has been
health the last six month but
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Kaiser's Armies Reach Points
Only 500 Miles from the
Capital of Russia.
PETROGRAD is THE GOAL
Russian Rearguards Fighting
Desperately at Points Re-
garded Critical.
Day 4ssoe,A4re perss,

BERLIN, Aug. 12.-Austro-G Ger
man forces, pursuing the Rnssfans.
who are retreattng from the Warsaw
salient, have occupied Lukow, accord
ing to official announcement by the
German army headquarters stan to-
day. Cambrowe also has been cap
tured, the statement adds.
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NEW PRESIDENT.

PORT Az Prince. Aug. 10. Cen
eral partiguenaye was today elected
president Of the Hattien republic by
the national assembly. Cain prevails.
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VOYAGE ENDED.

LONDON. Aug. 12The White
Star line steamship Adriatic. which
sailed from New York August 1, ar
rived Mt Liverpool this afternoon,