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¦item I'ASSENGEBS' a rerrine ngnt occurred at 10 o'clock yesterday morning on tt>oard the schooner Qga-i"ta at Milwaukee bietween union and nonunion men. At aboult that hour several union sailors boarded the schooner, which is discharging a earg-o oil' coal near Sixth street bridge, and ordered the "crew o£ four nonunion men to quit ttue vessel. The latter refused, whereupon title assailants proceeded to forcibly compel the crow to leave the schooner, meeting, however, with a de termined resistance. The fight became lurious in the ejxtreme, belaying puis and capstan-bars being the favorite weapons. Finally one of the crew escaped from the vessei anil trail with ail speed to the Central Police Statiom for help. In the meantime the crew, reduced to three men, were driven to the foreeasffile. Arming themselves with a couple of revolvers, the piuekly crew rallied, aud, charging? their assailants, drove them to the dock, whien they disappeared on the appearance of the,; patrol wagon. One of the union ran is sviol to nave received m t severe injuries, white both sides were the recipients of many juainful blows. Captain Ingiaham, of tie Og;:uita, was absent at the time of the disturbance. No arrests have been made.—Evening Wisconsin, Tuesday. § «'Kushina:"OrainFreifflits—Cliar-'i ters Yesterday foe-1,000,- ' OOOBnsiiei.s. I HAPPY SHIP-OV/ITEBS. GitAIN FEEIGHITS GO "KITING." Grain freighter were ifirni again. There was an urgent demand for veswels, and all ready were engaged. Eates were -I'-ic com and 4%c wheat tl to Collingwood, Sc wheat to : Kin-' at to Montreal. The en- f gagenieiits reported weoe as follows: . FLOTSAEt AND JETSAET. The A. P. Niehols arrived vesterday. She will go into dry dock. Inspector Newcomlb has started on a tour of the life-saving stations. The special steamboat inspectors left Chicago and went to Duluth. Captain Cochrane yesterday resumed command of the steamer Colin Campbell. The Canadian steanibarcre Clinton was in drydock last evening at the Chicago Company's yard. The east shore s:ide-wneel steamer Twilight comes here to go into dry-dock for an overhauling. There wa» considerable "scrambling" among reporters yesterday t.o act hold of the protest of the Yankee Blade. jgg The Canadian propeller Europe arrived liaht toe, and goes Into dry-doek this mom-u.n- at the Chicago Company's yard. The new harbor tu« Lorenzo Dimick made a trial trip at Buffalo in good shape. She is owned by Thomas Evan, and will ran in Hand & Johnson's line. Captain Michael Carr is her master. Captain George McLeod, of Buffalo, is in town looking after tile interests of tile insurance companies in the stoambiDxgc Saxon, lie has just re-rora the wreck of the Prussia, sunk in St. Lawrence River,—Oswego Express. 3 •J ¦\t STOLE IR03T BY THE TON. IMPORTANT CAPTDBE OP EIVEB PIRATES. Detectives Sullivan and Struebig made an important capture at Milwaukee yesterday afternoon. Three river pirates, Pat Eyan, alias Jones, William Walker, and Joseph Paul were arrested charged with stealing ten tons of pig iron from R. P. Elmore & .Company's South Side docks. The bold rascals conducted their operations after nightfall, carrying off the iron in a yawl boat. Ryan is from Chicag<o, Jones from Buffalo, and Paul from D etroit; the three men having operated considerably in each of these cities. They sold seven tons of the iron to Greensla.de Brothers, receiving $10 per ton, upon the representation that the iron hiiid been recovered from the river. The arrest of the gang is very important. The men have for years successfully eluded capture in other cities. _ Grain trimming ait Toledo, $1.50. The grain shovelers of Kingston have formed a union there and decided to do mo more Sunday work. They have placed rates at $2.50 per thousand bushels, and $4 per thousand! for heated grain. Forwarders have come out in opposition to the men and threaten to "put tifp elevators with steam shovels, when five men will be able to do the same work as twenty rneru now do." A strike is antici-.pated." The whisky war at East Tawas has taken a new turn. The schooner J. Handy, Captain H. Stall, has on board ninety gallons of whisky, an d is making short excursions from the dock out into the bay and selling to those on board, thus evading bonds and State licenses. Hugh McDonald, customs officer, caused the arrest of James Faulkner, charging him with illegally selling liquor in that village. Trial Saturday. Henry Steffens, whio has the contract for building the life-saving station at the edge of the water, on Lake Michigan, north of the pier at Manistee, ia getting along nicely with the work, •and will have the building so that the same can be used this fall. The work is being superintended by Captain W. R. Laird, Assistant Superintendent of Life-saving Stations. At Cleveland: True schoQner J. C. Harrison was yesterday chartered for ore from Marquette to Cleveland at $1.(30 per ton; the schooner S. L. Watson, ore, from Marquette to Lorain, p. t.; schooner S. E Sheldton, coal, from Black River to Duluth, 95c, and tlhe schooner S. P. Ely, coal, from Cleveland to Marquette, on contract.' From the first named veasels it can be seen that ore rates are still on the boom, as the first charters are full 10 cents above anything already obtained. Tonnage is still scarce, and there is no change in the situation on grain and coal freights. —Leader. ¦E FREIGHTS. A further advance in iron ore rates is looked for. Lumber freights advanced to the following figures^ Menominee to Chicago....................$2.00 Little Suamico to Chicago............... 2.'25 Muskegon to Chicago..................... 1.50 Manistee to Chicago....................... .l.ST1^ Ludington to Chicago..................... 1.7; > White Lake to Chicago.................... 1.62^ Other ports in proportion. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. CAPTAIN OTSTTNGEE'S INVENTION. Special Telegram to T'he Inter Ocean. EiiiE, Pa., Sept. 6.—A test of Captain Douglass Ottinger's sand-wheel was made here to-day under the supervision of the Advisory Board of the Life-saving Service- Among those present were Captain F. A. Baby, President of the board; GerP-eral Superintendent,, Sumner J. Kimball- Captain J. K. Merry man, Gemeral Inspector; Daptain D. A. Lyle, U. S. A. Ordtinance Corps, and J. C. Patterson, Keeper at Samdy Hook. Captain Ottinger . was also the inventor, of the life car, and has presented the sand-wiheel invention to the government. It consists off' a wooden tire of continuous cancave sections wUiich builds a little roadway for itself in the shante of oblong blocks. The result of the trial wsss very satisfactory. A surf-car, loaded, and weighing 2,700 pound;!, was hauled by eight mem 1,000 feet in live minutes. The wheel made no 'depression in the sand whatever. The woodem ties were then taken off, when it was found! that the same load with ordinary wheels made a depression of two inches. The trial was witmessed by a large nnmber of leading citizens. Boom of Prosperity im the Harlbor-Lumber Freight! Adwafice One Shilling. (far In Grain (forgo Insurance—The Fool Reduce Rates Agftin^Ehe Sailor Troubles. ------------ w, THE GOOD TIHJTBS. AS INDICATED BY GRAIN ' 'FREIGHTS. The demand for grain vessels was again urgent Bnd every available craft was chartered. A whole fleet of light vessels from Milwamikee was thrown upon the market, but rates weffe not affected in the least, unless perhaps a further advance was prevented. To Buffalti on corn tfihe rate was ^c, and on wheat 5c. To Georgian Bay ports the rate was 3c on corn. The schooner Edward Blake obtained 9c on corn to Prescott—the highest rate through the Welland GJanal -ince 1879. The day's engagements were as [follows: uw^icu i«iuKrara toTlie interOceam. Kingston, Ont., Sept. 6.—RteportS state the propeller Prussia is in a very baid shape, the last gale having damaged her considerably, so much so that it is feared that her supiplv works will be knocked to pieces before she cam be relieved. Captains Taylor and Lewis haid a survey of the schooner Maggy McRae, but could not agree. Captain Middleton was called im, and it was then decided that the captain should pay $250, but he refused to do so, saying he womld sell the damaged grain by auction, take his freight, ami hand the balance over to the consignees. The forwarders have refused to pay 'the freight. It is said there is a crack in her <center-board box, .which let in the water and danaaged the cargo, therefore the vessel is liable. CHEAPER CARGO INSURANCE. THE POOL EEOUCES EATJES AGAIN. The Chicago Cargo Insurance PJool reduced rates on grain yesterday to the followiing figures: .------Sail------. A. Bl To ports on Lake Michigan........... 20 40 To ports on Lake Superior............ 50 1 $ et To ports on Lake Huron, Sarnia, and Detroit River......................... 20 40 To ports on Georgian Bay........... 20 41) To ports on Lake Erie................ 25 50 To ports on Lake Ontario............ 50 1 ¦*$ et To Ogdensburg.......................55 1 |j_ct To Montreal........................... 75 1.50 Add 20 per cent on Bl steam. The pool agents say the "Big -11" companies had commenced writing grain risks aigain, taking the pool rates as their rates, and tihat the pool now reduces the tariff again so as toenrcumvent them. The contract rate of the "Big 4" tfor this month to Buffalo is 50 cents. FLOTSAM AND JIETSAM. ¦ A fleet of grain-carrying vessels arrived from Milwaukee light, and went ito the elevators. Some i ' them left for below lastt night. The old schooner Acontlas aririved yesterday in tow of the tug Bruce. She ways in leaky condition. The cargo of corn on the (schooner Edward Blake, for Prescott, will be discharged in bags. The big shipments of grain Iby lake makes a general boom of prosperity in the harbor. Vessel-owners are happy at the goiod rates: sailors and grain-trimmers are happy because the advanced rates of freight admits of vessels paying the advance in .sailors' wages; and in trimming rates; tugmen are happy over tthe active movements of vessels in the harboir, and so on. Now that vessels aro making money, a good many old bills against them will be paid,, and, in one way and another, the boom will be; widely felt and appreciated. When vessels are making money, the dry-docks, the tugs, the sflaip-supply stores, ¦ etc., can always make ready collections. The sailor troubles are not at all serious,compar-atively sneaking. Grain vessels are obtaining good 'rates, and there is but liittle opposition to the union rate of wages. One-half of the schooner Pilgrrim was sold yesterday by Christopher Henrothi to Emma H. Corbett. Consideration, $700. The Pilgrim was j built in 1847. Captain Domnick Barrett t;akes the wheel on the tug John Miner. Captain IKirby has been appointed to the tag Shields, The tug TelephonO'has beem sold, and goes to Grand Haven. Captain Thomas Crosby retmrned home to Chicago yesterday. The illness <*>f Mr. Dimick, his Buffalo partner, has kept him Ibusy at Buffalo for same time past. FREIGHTS STILL IKIGH ER. BIG DEMAND AND BUT ffiffiW VESSELS. The demand for tonnage was urgent yesterday, and there was but few unchartered vessels in port. The Starueca and Niagara, given below, were engaged on Thursday and not reported. The only vessel engage'! yesterday for Buffalo (that was macde public) was the Our Bon, and she got 4%c om corn—a further advance or 14c. On corn to Midland vessels obtained 3^a The Sarnia rate was understood to be 3({tii\c. TO BUFFALO). Bushels. Propeller Starueca, wheat..................30,000 Schooner Niagara, corn.....................54.000 Schooner Our Son, corn....................40,000 TO ERIE. Propellor Conestoga, corn...................40,000 TO MIDLAND. Schooner Pewaukee, corn..................19,000 TO saunia. Steambarge S, C. Hall, corn...............23,000 Schooner White Cloud, corn...............15,000 TO LAKE SUPERIOK. Schooner Naiad, oats.......................25,000 Schooner John Bigler, oats................ 27,000 THAT BOSTON-FROST RACE. CAPTAIN MELLEK'S DENIAL. *j Special Telegram to The Inter Oosean. Port Colborne, Ont., Siept. 7—Captain Miller, of the steamship W. L. Frost, wishes the report published in the Times,, regarding his race with the propelleir Boston, denied. He says if they would reverse the report they would come nearer the marlk. He claims the boats left the river together:, and although he waited, the Boston was tunable to keep up. After running easy all nightt, the Frost was about rive miles ahead in tthe morning, and claims when he pushed hen- she would beat the Boston two miles an liotur. THE SUNKEN STEAMERS PRUSSSIA'anD SEWELL. Captain .John Donnelly hawing failed to arrive at Brockville on Fridaty, Captain Tom Donnelly took the responsibility of raising the sunken propeller Prussia*. A bargain was made with Captain McLeod, of the American Board of Underwriters, and on Saturday the steamer Watertov/n went tco the scene' of action to commence work. It is said that t Captain Donnelly agrees to put the Prussia \ on the Kingston dry-clock foir $2,200. Men arc at present engagjed. grappling: for > trie sunken steamer Editlh Sewell, which went down off Horseshoe Isliand some weeks I ago. The location of the. wreck has not yet! been discovered. The grap>pling will pro- ! ceed until the craft is foumd. Parts of her upper works have floated aslhore. own steamers can carry. The master of the schooner John Bigler was hurt recently by a stick of timber falling on ^ him. It was stated last evening that ( laptain j Jno. O'Donnell, formerly of the Yankee Blade, would take the Bigler out this time. The .schooners A. Bronson and Black Hawk were .chartered yesterday for ties audi posts from Norwood to Milwaukee at 6^ and -1 cents. The schooner C. Gordon gets";;;'., and 4 cents on posts from Rawley's Bay. The mate of the steamer Prussia attariibutes the accident to a couple of tows whieih were L going up tile river at the time which, crowded him against the shoal off Chippewa Pocnt He - was at the wheel at the time. He is said by competent vesselmen to be one of tlte best pilots on the river. The tug J. Spinney has been sold by Captain Joseph Page to Messrs. John Duinseith, i George Hardy, and C. G. Curry, of Toledo. I She was built in 1873 at Buffalo by.H©3ght & Van Siaer, at a cost of $8,000, and was afterward owned by Tulth & Co., of Oswego, who 'sold her to James and George Hard y, who took her to Toledo, where she was purchased by Captain Page. The tug will be .kept at Toledo. Messrs. Webb and Benedict, counsel for the owners of the tug Cumniings, in the suit brought by Edward P. Loomis, owner of the cargo of potatoes and apples lo.st in the b6at Carrie and Cora at the time the boat was lost while in tow of the tug, last fall, to-day received a letter .stating that Judge Coxe, of the United States District Court, before whom the case was tried, had rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff for 92,'50O. The amount claimed by Loomis was $5T500. Judge Coxe in his report says that tlie evidence showed that the owners of the canal-boat were also to blame, 'There can be 110 appeal from this decision. — (jswego Palladium. Lively interest was taken yesterday afternoon in a pulling match between the canal tugs Samuel Sloan and T. H. Fulton. One hundreoVdollars had been put up oil each boat and numerous outside bets were made. The tugs* hitched together stern to stern, in I the BJackwell Canal, just above the Michigan street bridge, and went at it for all they j were.worth. The Sloan gained ground slowly j almost from the start, though at ont time the Fulton got a slight advantage. The \ Sloan, however, soon forged aheadag^utii, and . after ten minutes' woik she fairly away with the Fulton, which let go the line. Tlie'Sioaii is a much newer boat than the Fulton, and it is claimed that her engine and boiler are somewhat the larger. It was easily seen that the Sloan made steam faster than her rival.—Buffalo Courier, Thursday. 1—from Duluth. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 7.—The new breakwater building was broken to pieces by last night's storm and strewn all along the shore. It will prove a total loss. Boats were all kept liere for-the day by the storm. Some got away to-day and others go to-night. FROM MILWAUKEE. Special Telegrsm to The IntorOc an. Mtlwauj:i:e, Wis., Sept 1—A heavy northerly gale prevails and a big sea is on outside. As yet no disasters have been report* AH"the regular line boats arc detained!. The following vessels from Chicago are in tthe bay and harbor: Steambarge W. \>. Wetmxore and consort Brunette; sehooiiers Ibsjngg Star, Marengo, City of Green Bay, Anna Maria," Peoria,' Libbi^ Natf, Golden C, J. Maglll, Jessie Winters, FrankD. EBarker, M. CaprOn, Bonner, Knight Templar, Mars, Ellen Spry, Gesme, The tugg C. M. Charnley, with a scow lumber ladem, from Chicago* ran in for shelter. The schr^s Oasea and limraaL, Coyne left for Chicago. The Sherwood lost her forema*st,head ana foresail in a blow on Lake Erie on 1 ie up trip. She arrived bore to-day with ci ml, and will receive-a new foremost here. 'The tug IX. Pax!:-, v.^'^Ji^rpke her shaft at fchejjoy-offnTwas towed here Cy-UjAV. ¦¦ COT7TOS sun Further of the Recent Wrecks—A I>eatli Trap — The Inspector's Hounds. The Ida Keith's Grain Cargo—News from, the Pensaukee—Insurance on Wrecks. LIVJE-SAVING SERVICE. WHAT SUPERINTENDENT KIMBALL SAYS. Special Telepram to The Inter Ocean. Washington, Sept. 10.—Mr. Sumner I. Kirn-ball, Chief of the life Bayinu service, has just returned from an extended tour, embracing the entire list of stations on the lakes, except those on Take Superior. He has visited fourteen stations on take Michigan, four on Lake Superior, nine on Lake Huron, five on Lake Erie; has reviewed and drilled the crews of every one of them and inspected their apparatus. Mr. Kimball Bays the condition of the life-saving service on the lakes is better than that of the stations on the Atlantic coast. He nvoposos to introduce some improvements. The telephone can be used to advantage between stations, and the railroad companies can he induced to furnish platform car? and transport apparatus immediately to wrecks on the Erie coast. Most of the stations are located at the months of rivers and harbors and it is usually while trying to make th se in a storm that wrecks occur. Mr. Kimball will recommend the establishment of the following additional stations: One at Grand Marais, on Lake Superior; at Michigan City, Ind.: at South Haven Holland, White River, Pentwater, and Frankfort, Michigan, and at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wisconsin. The ground has been donated at each of these points, and the government has only the expense ot the title deeds. SHOOTING MEN OUT OF Gt'NS. The report also includes the organization of the life-saving service, the appropriation and expenditures, instructions to marines in case of shipwreck, a list of all the life-saving stations, and reports of the Board of Life-saving Appliances. Included in the latter is an interesting description of Fox'8 gun by whieh-the inventor proposes to shoot a mftu, nyt. to a wrecfo.. slosecSll1!.....m Mr. A. W. Colton, Manager or" the Wabash ^ Sand Beach, Sept. 8.—The tow barge Colorado, the last in tow of the Dickinson, when coming in last night parted her tow line and drifted against tlie lower pier on the outside. They got a line fast to the pier twice, but each time it parted and she finally drifted ashore. A seaman on the Colorado had a very narrow escape when she left the pier. He was on there with the water washing over three to five feet deep. At the upper end of the pier there is a ladder leading up to the light. He managed by clinging to the plank and letting the sea wash over him, then running ahead between the seas, to work his way to the ladder, a distance of about 1,000 feet, when he climbed up awaj from the water. Few men could accomplish this feat.' He then hung on there exposed to the gale and drenched with water for about four hours, when he was taken off by the life-saving crew and cared for. The remainder of the crew are still aboard the Colorado, but safe, as she is well up on the beach and not broken rip any. The life-saving crew went to them promptly, but could do nothing for them then. The tug Adams, when they sighted her outside the pier, went to her at the risk of the tug and the lives of the crew, as there was a terrible sea close on the outside of the pier at that time, and threw a line aboard her three times, but for some unaccountable reason they failed to make it fast, and the tug was forced to leave her. Her lines and crew, aside from the man that got on the pier, seemed about useless. The wind is dying away at i) p. m., and delayed boats are likely to get away bef fore morning. earners in t his citv, receive i int ligehee from Detroit this forenoon 11. ¦ the tug Colton, which left here at -1 o'clock this neeiibm'. reached a point in the Detroit River near the'head of Bel|e Isle, a collision took place between the tugs Baiize and Colton, in which the latter wis struck on the starboard bow and soon went down by the head with her stern above water. Captain Huntly, who, it is thought, was on wateii at the time of the accident, received some inj ury, but from what can be gathered it seems his injuries are not serious. He got wet and was WKECKEES AT WORK. S. A. Murphy has taken the contract of raising the tug A. W. Coulton, and commenced operations on Saturday. The tug will be lifted with pontoons. The tug Charles Kellogg left Detroit on Saturday, with a complete wrecking outfit^ fAo release the schooner Sumatra, ashore and ull of water near Marquette. The tug Michigan left Detroit on Saturday 'to release the schooner ilichard Winslow, which ran hard aground on the Canada side ;of Lake Huron on Friday night. The schooner -was light at the time and bound up. The chilled, but it in thought he is all right by tug Erie Belle is said to be working at her this time. He was in comrrmpicataoa by < '" telephone with Mr. Colton at about noon today. One__ of the firemen, supposed also. - YACHT SUNK. A statement concerning the collision between the yachts Wasp and iEtna will be found in the city columns. ijiu-'cmi. TflVnm"T to EhAtfa*** *¦> Marquette, Mich., Sept. 11. —The wine to" be Henry Sullivan, brother of Lafayette Sullivan, of this city, jj was below deck when the collision took place. ' and it was found necessary to chop a hole in f ' Uhe deck to extricate him. All others on the [bug escaped without injury. There were on the Colton Captains Huntlev and Chamber- . lain, two firemen, and the cook. They will ||he ^ released it will shake her up badly. [•eturn to Toledo this evening on the steamer Waite. The Colton will bo at once raised and repairs made. since Sunday has not troubled the Sumatra, jut should it blow from the northeast before :. For the present she will be rh,ere are large bowlders near her, but shell Left in charge of Captain Mullen, of Detroit, ¦ -manager of the Ohio Central Coal and Barge he now lies easy broadside, and inclined lOward the lake in three feet of waterj| (Company's boats. The tug Colton bus been -very unfortunate since she commenced tow- Jing.1 Last year she and the steamer Milton 'Ward ran against each other and the Colton ad her starboard bow crushed in, causing er to sink. She was repaired at Detroit at . cost of about $4,000. Nothing has yet _oeen learneu as to how badly she is injured. [The Colton was built by Bell, of Buffalo, and cost about $20,000. She is one of the finest lakes.— Toledo l>lfub\ Thursdav. __ "-""Txa "FBOST BEPORTB." has not been damaged to any great extent.! Before going ashore she was seutttled, and)' has about three feet of water in her. Two arbor tugs pulled on her yesterday and toj !i>V li ' V '.i;^ move her "aptam Hastings and a Chicago pool man ent to the stranded schooner Laura Belle io-day. She is head on and broken in two. Ln examination will be made to decide what hall be done with her. On the "frost twports" the corn market here has advanced, and the market in New York has not yet responded. Orders have been received to seii corn here, aud as a result the demand for vessels in which to ship corn is somewhat lighter. There is no over-supply of tonnage, hev.evo'. and rates continue on the basis of 412C to Buffalo. If there was any shading yesterday it was by line steamers. The rate on corn to Midland" ami Collingwood continued firm at 3\jc, and 10 Sarnia at 3o. The day's engagements were as follows; William Clark, an old man-o"-war's inan, who has been sailing on the lakes of late, desires to gain admittance into some naval asylum, and has applied to Surgeon Miller. Mr. Clark's sight has failed him. The North Side Lake Shore drive suffered severely by the late storm. The Holland (brush) shore pi orectum is swept awav in numerous and there are several washouts in the roadway of the drive. Fences have been put up : for safety. Tlie steambarge C. W. Moore and tug Satisfaction are et the Vessel Owners'dry-dock. The schooner Nevada arrived yesterday with a broken mainboom and a torn mainsail. The Parana and the A. J'. Nichols came out of the Chicago Company's docks this morning; Anthony Everett to John R. Barker, one-sixteenth schooner 0. A. King. Consideration, $1. A number of steamers and vessels, already chartered for grain, were only arriving yesterday. Grain clearances at the Custom House, from Saturday night to yesterday afternoon, 1,200,000 bushels. ORE FREIGHTS TIP AGAIN. CHAETEE IN CHICAGO YESTEEDAy. Iron ore freights are firm and higher. The schooner W. H. Yanderbilt was chartered in Chicago yesterday to load at Escanaba for Buffalo at $1.70, and other vessels were held at $1.75. The demand for vessels is urgent. grain feeights. Grain freights were steady at 4%5 corn to Buffalo, and 3c corn to Sarnia. It is understood that the schooner Nevada gets 9c on her cargo of corn to Prescott. The day's engagements were as follows: The wreck of the propeller G-lenflnlas has been { sold by public auction. The hull, boiler and ma- | chinery sold for $050 to Captain .Jas. Hurra}*, of St. Catharines. Neelon's new iron-frame steambarge, under construction at Shickluna's shipyard, Si. Catharines,, will net be ready before next spring. She will be full size St. Lawrence Canal, and will lie a steamer very much like the Miles. George Thurston is .master builder, and Oille, of St. Catharines, puts in the machinery. Captain Merryman is rushing the work of raising the propeller Prussia. A tug and two schooners from Kingston ljave gone down to the scene of the wreck. They will be placed on each side of the craft, chains will be put under the Prussia, " w I."" ^ajJailj imiiiMi""'iT fl nM *to[L nil in ^Suit has been commenced against the owners 0: t!ie steambarge M. M. Drake to recover damages sustained by the schooner Alice B. Norris, waukee, last fall. The Norris was in tow of the Drake, and was run on Fox Island. Soon after the Drake was libeled for $3,000 damages by Norris A; Co., owners of the schooner. The schooner was in part insured, and the owners of j the Drake settled with the schooner owners tor [ their uninsured interest. Several of the underwriters who paid their share of the loss on th| [vessel have hied anIrj^aafiflU^frWiaL-.^^......, , -| 'lAic "J^iiiKston jSfi'ics says: ."Mr. Ellbeck paid 45 dents per bushel for the McRae's damaged grain. Or course ii' he keeps it in this country he will have to pay the duty. It is said he will dispose of it in Oswego."