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MARINE REVIEW. 9 Around the Lakes. Five hundred bushels of the M wet by the breaking of a pipe at Erie. Falcon has pumped 150 tons of ore from the K : using the schooner Barkalow for a lighter. e Kasota. He is Steamer Niko was short r10 bushels ona Chicago wheat cargo of only 44,000 bushels carried at 1% cents. _ A. H. Shafer and E. Harlock, of Detroit, have purchased six-sixteenths of the steamer Oswegatchie for $3,000. The Iosco recently launched from Wheeler’s yard, t yard, took cent coal from Toledo to Duluth. David utchiucon is ee Sturgeon Bay Canal Company libeled the schooner Foster for canal tolls. Leatham & Smith, Sturgeon Bay, will con- test the case. : The propellers Fred. Pabst and Thomas Davidson have be- gun work in the Escanaba ore trade on an old contract, of which 50,000 tons remain. About 2,200 tons of package freight, mostly flour, was taken out of the Northern Line propeller North Star at Buffalo a few days ago in seven hours. The tug Favorite released the Raleigh and Camden from Gray’s reef. The Raleigh was leaking and was towed to Dun- can City for examination. The Eber Ward was refused clearance at Duluth with Cana- dian bonded wheat to Kingston. There has been no provision to cover this trade since 1885. onteagle’s grain cargo was Home companies are again after the foreign underwriters. A bill in the Illinois legislature would require foreign companies to deposit $200,000 with the state. The steamer H. S. Pickands will tow the schooner Marengo this season. The Marengo will be sailed by Capt. Berlin, last season in the schooner Canton. The Wawatam’s independent condenser,which throws a con- tinual stream of water, gave Detroit people the impression that she had struck a rock and was working a siphon. Deputy Collector Lundberg, of Chicago, was merely the agent for the purchase of the steamer City of Green Bay, and is in no way liable to dismissal and a heavy fine. Capt.W.H. Landgraf was acquitted at Milwaukee on the charge of shooting Charles Wilbur, a sailor, with intent to kill. It was the second trial, the jury having disagreed at the first. Just 3,200,000 feet of lumber was delivered in Chicago a few days ago from Baraga, Lake Superior, by the propeller School- craft and her three barges, Bourke, Nester and Keweenaw. John O. Lindquist and others, of Menekaunee, bought the City of Green Bay from Chicago parties for about $2,500. It is expected she will be repaired and put in the Lake Michigan coast trade. Captains arriving at Sandusky, Friday, reported a heavy fog and smoke over the north passage. ‘They claim the Dummy fog horn was not blown until morning and several boats were de- layed all night. Dredging on the new Duluth-West Superior channel will be finished in a few days. West Duluth channel in St. Louis bay will now be dredged, so that lumber carriers can take big loads from the saw mills. The barge W. I. Peck was sold at Tonawana, Monday, by the United States marshal to Charles Schwinger for $2,000. Claims against her aggregate $3,500, and it is thought she was bought in for the owners. Nearly $300,000 has already been expended in dredging and breakwater work preparatory to the erection of the new Lake Shore ore docks at Ashtabula, and this amount will be more than doubled before the work is finished. i indication of the dull opening in the ore trade: The ee Splat won. Fred Pabst and Thomas Davidson failed to obtain ore cargoes at Escanaba and were compelled to go to Buffalo in light trim for coal. The Canadian schooner Nett. Woodward met the Commodore and $1,000 will not repair the damage. The captain of the Com- modore stopped at Detroit and libiled what was left of the schooner and she will be sold at marshal’s sale. waging war on the Erie canal. The Lukens Iron and Steel Company, Coatesville, Pa., will furnish the plates for the two government boats building by the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland. This company recently sold 10,000 tons of ship plate to the American Steel Barge Com- pany. There is no long and short haul clause in the lake marine. Saturday 17 cents a bushel was paid fot carrrying corn, Chicago to Buffalo, and 1% cents to Port Huron. While 1¥ is the rate on wheat from Chicago to Buffalo, 114 cents is paid from Detroit to Buffalo. The collector of customs and the fishery overseer at Windsor have notified the Canadian marine department of the scuttling of » a vessel at Windsor with 7,000 barrels of lime on board. The vessel had to be sunk, as the lime had caught fire. Owners are now asking permission to dump the lime into the Detroit river, but this is contrary to law and the fishery overseer contends that it will kill the fish. Sir Charles Tupper has the matter under con- sideration. : The new Canadian Pacific steamship Manitoba and the North Wind had an exciting brush, Friday. They left the Sault together, the Wind leading the Manitoba a boat’s length or so. ‘Try as hard as she could the Manitoba failed to gain an inch. The long stern chase was kept up till Whitefish poin was reached, when the Manitoba gave up in disgust and partéc company with the North Wind, although their course is together as far as Kewéenaw point. : Salt water divers wear cutlasses which they use in case they are disturbed by sharks, but Divers Cumfrey and McCullough, engaged in placing dynamite cartridges in the wreck of the Ben — Hur, will wear knives for the purpose of cutting themselves loose when the current tangles the lines about them. Cumfrey came near losing his life last week by getting entangled. The cartridges used contain from 40 to 100 pounds of dynamite. Captains Johnson and Baker, Detroit, superintended the work. For three years the railroads east of Buffalo have been Canal boat men reduced their rates one day last week to 3% cents a bushel on wheat and 234 cents on corn from Buffalo to New York. ‘Taking out the eleva- tor charges at Buffalo the boats only received 2% cents for wheat and 1% cents for corn. The rail rate of 4% cents a bushel on wheat and 4% cents on corn took the business, time, in view of the high prices of grain, more than making up the difference. The war is an expensive one to the railroads also. Counting out Buffalo elevator charges they are receiving but 354 cents a bushel on wheat and 33 cents on corn for a rail haul of 425 miles. ‘When I heard of the Raleigh’s mishap on Gray’s reef,’’ said Capt. John Quinn, “I began at once to think of theschooner Sheldon. The Raleigh had the Camden and Sheldon in tow at the time she struck. The Camden went on but the last named escaped. A singular fatality seems to attach itself to propellets that tow the Sheldon, but she herself usually goes scot free. When the Ohio was sunk a year ago by the Siberia in the Sault river she had the Sheldon in tow, but the latter came out un- scathed. When the Kasota was sunk by the City of Detroit last fall she had the Sheldon in tow, but the latter, as usual, sailed down as though nothing had happened It isa singular coinci- dence, to say the least.” P. M. Church gives the following notice to captains: ‘‘Hav- ing been awarded the contract for patrolling the river for the United States government and earnestly desiring to perform the best service possible, I would respectfully ask that you notify me, either by letter at the canal office, by telephone, or verbally of the absence or displacement of any buoy from its proper posi- tion in the channel. ‘The captain of the patrol boat has been in- structed by me that should he find any boat aground, to go to such boat and offer to carry any message, or messenger, to the nearest telephone station on the river, provided it does not in- terfere with the performance of his duty in caring for the buoys and this without charge. Telephone address, ship chandlery, paint and oil store, No. 7; residence, near Perry’s dock No. 4. Word may be left at the ship chandlery of P. M. Church & Co., Savings Bank block, or at the coppersmith’s shop of P. M Church & Co.. located near the canal pier, opposite Hickler’s machine shop.” The keel of the first American steel sailing vessel will be laid in the Loring shipyard in South Boston. Her dimensions will be: Length 220 feet, breadth 36 feet 6 inches, depth 22 feet 6 inches, tonnage 1,398. She will be bark rigged and is in- tended for the Australian, China and Japan trade.