Show ABOUT SHIPS AND SAILORS N At 0 meeting of tho Liverpool Steamship Steam-ship Owners association It was agreed that tIne advance In < ho price o coal necessitated ne-cessitated an all around advance In freight Tho transport Stephens called September I Sep-tember 1st trom Manila to Seattle She has paymasters und armv wanons aboard I for our forces In China and will put them ashoro at Taku en route for this country coun-try I tryTho United States training ship Hartford I ford and J2egex nrrlvciVnt Gravoscnd England yesterday making throe United Slates vessels now at that place limo training ship Lancaster having arrived I August 25th Tho United Stales battleships Texas Indiana Massachusetts Kiar sarpo and Kentucky arrived at Bar Harbor at 1 oclock yesterday and anchored an-chored In two columns west of tho flag uhip Now York Tho Oriental line Victoria arrived in Tacoma yesterday afternoon The Victoria Vic-toria brought about 1000 tons of mixed cargo constating largely of tea nnd Including In-cluding O bales of Japanese sik Sho also had olRhlytwo passengers Tho United State tninajwrt Rose crans called Inst evening from San Francisco Fran-cisco for Manila 10 Nagasaki with light batteries C and M Seventh artillery luJ GraonouRh commanding J23 recruits and 300 members of limo hoppltal corp |