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Erie, Pa., Oct. 4.—Several years agi Norman, a diver, well known along the chain of great lakes, left Erie and engaged in government work on the Atlantic coast. He and T. E. Wilson, now of Cleveland, worked together in 1864 on the United States flagship Cumberland, sunk by the rebel ram Merrimac at Hampton Roads, James River, Norfolk. "Wilson, who is here to raise the steamer Oakland, which went down in Lake Erie two weeks ago, brings the first tidings that Norman's friends have had of him since he went to the James River. Shortly after their operations together on the Cumberland they separated, and Wilson went to the Mississippi, but he has recently learned that his old friend Norman met with a horrible death under mysterious circumstances. Norman and another went into a contract to raise a safe containing treasures from a vessel in the James River. Norman went down, and, making fast to the safe, hauled her up. At the urgent request of the party attending, Norman went down again, and was soon hauled up dead. His helmet had either been intentionally disconnected or accidentally so, and he was suffocated. Norman's wife, who is now a cook on a lake vessel, had until now been unable to learn the particulars of her husband's death, and what adds to the mystery, never received her husband's share of the contents of the safe. FREIGHTS.* THE CONDITION OF THINGS YESTERDAY. Oraia freights were firm at 3%c corn to Buffalo, and 3c corn to Midland. Charters were: TO BUFFALO. Bushels. Schooner Georger, corn.....................57,000 Propeller Staruoca, corn....................40,000 Propeller Jay Gould, corn..................30,000 Propeller Milwaukee, corn.....,...........30,000 TO MIDLAND. Schooner Granger, corn....................23,000 TO SARNIA. Schooner Mary Collins,corn................17,000 Propeller S. C, Hall, corn...................23,000 • FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Charters at Cleveland: Prop Fred Kelley and consort Warner, ore, Escanaba to Ohio ports, $1.40;schrs Lem Ellsworth, coal to Escanaba, p. t.; Nellie Redington, ore, Escanaba to Cleveland, p. t.; Dan Rogers, coal, Toledo to St. Ignace, (J5 cents. THE BOB TEED. A FINE NEW TUG. An inspection of the new tug Bob Teed proves her to be all that has been claimed for her. She is strongly yet beautifully built, and, though possessed of more beam than boats of her length usually have, the model is a handsome one. She has an excellent steam power, and is a most handy boat in every way. She can turn around within her length; she is a giant to pull, and in a f sea outside she rides grandly, shipping never a drop of water. Pulling on monster vessels and steamers in the harbor, and turning bends in the river, her extra beam helps her immensely, and she does not careen over and lose her power as most of the tugs do. The dimensions are; Length over all, feet.............. Breadth of beam, feet............ Depth of hold, feet............................ v The engine is a powerful.beauty, 18x22. The bnfler is Of.is steel. . . ^r-• CARGO INSURANCE. NEW RATES BY THE POOL. The Chicago Cargo Pool made the following new tariff of rates yesterday, going Into effect last evening: .73*2 . 17*4 ,-------SAIL--------- A. Bl. To ports on Lake Michigan.........$.30 $ .60 To ports on Lake Superior...........75 1.50 To ports on Lake Huron, Sarnia and Detroit River.......................30 .00 To ports on Georgian Bay............30 .HO To ports on Lake Erie................40 .80 To ports on Lake Ontario...........05 1.30 To Ogdensburg.......................70 1.40 I To Montreal, per cent............... 1 2 Add 10 per cent on Bl steam. I The tariff of the "Big 4" is as follows. From Chicago to Lake Huron ports........ $ .CO .From Chicago to Buffalo....................SO From Chicago to Lake Ontario ports........ 1.00 From Chicago to Ogdensburg................ 1.25 From C hicago to Montreal................... 1.50 Ten per cent additional to be added to above lates on Bl vessels. '\:::¦::" w"C?.....nVt......fi.—The steam- FJ1ASKF011T, . MICH., Oct. Frvor •will t and is r.. reamers I. M. Weston and departed light. Westerly load pine i fug a new one. The -> Geo. D. Sanford winds. THAT RACE. TOO WARM, FOR FROST. The steamship H. J, Jewett, the "race-horse" of the Union Line, arrived hero at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, having made the fastest trip on record between Buffalo and this port, beating all her previous records. The run from Port Huron to this port was made in 28 hours and 20 minutes, she having passed Port Huron at 11:40 o'clock Monday forenoon. The Walter L. Frost, of the Chicago and Ogdensburg Line, which is looked upon by her admirers as the rival of the Jewett, passed Port Huron also, bound up, fifty minute* after the Jewett. The Captain of the Frost said that he gained eighteen minutes on the Jewett from Detroit to Port Huron, and that ho would beat her to the upper lakes. At dusk last evening the Frost had not arrived. The Captain of the Jewett stated that he saw her at Detroit. The weather was undoubtedly too warm foi Frost.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The officers of the Frost say there was no race, and that the Jewett was four hours and a hal ahead at the alleged startingpomtaB/1"" fori FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. The Marengo takes barley from Milwaukee to Buffalo. The'schooner Golden Fleece was towed outside ty and shipped a new eenterboard. She then went to an elevator to load for Buffalo. .g Cutnmings has taken one of W. Allen's steam pumps to Fair Haven, to be used in getting hoonerSere^tii, ash, mil* i,t itenttliiflfTii .¦¦«" Ihe haiuisome*'lllnew three-sparred steambarge Nipigon, which runs from Ogdensburg to Duluth, is in port with her consort the Melbourne, and will load coal for Duluth at the D. L. and W. trestles. The Nipigon is a handsome barge, and is commanded by Captain James Parsons, She was built at Sr. Clair,—Oswego Palladium. f d by the steambarge Farwell and consorts Iter and Godfrey. They got $3.30 per ton, on board, on coal from Buffalo to Port Arthur, 5 cents on wheat from Duluth to Buffalo. j The total freight aggregates $12,700. Captain Gilchrist, of Alpena, has purchased the steambarge S. 0. Hall, of Chicago, to take the e of the steambame Fast Saginaw, which indered on Lake Huron last week. Portions of Bast Saginaw have been towed I into Goderich by the tug Trudeau. ] A letter received here yesterday from Buffalo ! from Captain Wex, of the wrecked propeller ¦ mac. stated that he would arrive in Milwau- ter part of this week to look after his lei, as everything was settled for the payment he underwriters of the loss on the hxdL—Mil- i waufcee Sentinel. RESCUING THE PERISHING, y E CRUISE OF THE GOSFEL SHIP. -^Jf* To tho Editor of The Inter Ocean. Grand Duck Islands, Lake Huron, Sept. 25.— We have been holding meetings every night here and I never saw such desire to hear the gospel. The tent has been literally crowded every night. There are about 200 fishermen on this island, principally French Catholic, but tney say the Protestant religion is right. They are verv kind to us, and I know it would do you good to see these dear people sitting like statues to hear the Old, old story of Jesus; how He went about in His i ship preaching the glad tidings' to all the world. We started a Sunday school at 2 p.m. There were thirty children and a number of young men in the Bible class. There was a living gale of wind last night from the north-northwest and it blew down bur tent. Our men rescued a large pound boat at xO p. m., which had broke adrift and was going out into the lake. "When the owners saw their boat this morning they were more than thankful to ue. We are going to the lighthouse to-morrow on the other island. They have a large family and we are going over to baptize Som« of the children. We have not missed the most isolate;! lighthouses, such as Spectral Reef and Sulphur island light. Wc read, sang, and prayed witn them, and they were all verv thankful. Glory to God! We think of going to two or three other islands on our way to Collingwood. There we expect to meet some of God's children and be refreshed; then come into .Lake Michigan and finish xip on the North shore. . Remember us to all the dear friends. 1 rom yours truly, 11 ¦-: . by BUKDT, Gospel Ship Glad Tidings. FREIGHTS. AN APPRECIATION IN RATES. There was a good demand for tonnage for grain, with a Light supply, and rates were firm and 14c higher, ruling at 33ic corn and rye and 4c wheat to Buffalo, and 3c corn to Midland and Collingwood. The day's engagements were as follows: During the three months ending Sept. 30 the local inspectors of the Detroit District inspected four passenger steamers, one ferrv, twelve freight steamers, and eight steam yachts. There were licensed during this period 48 masters, 32 first-class pilots, 14 second-class pilots, 63 engineers, and 43 assistant engineers. , The fees received for the above work amounted to $1,029.45, and the tonnage of the steamers inspected amounted to 8,779.29 tons. INHTffSfcAN CONDUCT." THE CASES OF THE WILLIAM TREAT. To the Editor of tfhe Free Press. Poet Albert.Ont., Oct. 5.—I hope you will allow me space in yotar columns to show up the inhuman conduct of those in charge of the tug J. P. j, Clarke, which deserted the barge William Treat, which she had! in tow, risking the lives of the icrew, and resulting in the total loss of the ves- Ijse] and cargo. We left Bay City on Thursday, Sept. 27, and ab«out 9 p. m. the tug, owing to the heavy sea running, left us off Sand Beach. For this action I do not blame the Clarke, but the fact that she failed to look for us afterward, as the next two days were calm, I regard as criminal. On Thursday ni&ght our steering gear went astray, and we shipped our cabin full of water, destroying all our provisions. After the third day a storm again came on, and on account of our helpless condition we drifted before the wind toward the Canada side. O n Wedlnesday, Oct. 3, after being a number of days without food, the crew, consisting of Captain George McKay, George Agans, mate; Frank Cuishing, John Legue, Oliver Allan, Frank Spear, avnd the cook, Annie Lewiston, escaped to the ^Canadian shore on rafts after a terrible experience in the breakers, being repeatedly overturned by the giant waves. Between hunger and exposure the crew were almost helpless, and, but fltor a farm-house being close at hand, might hsave perished ashore. The barge went to pieces sihortly after the crew deserted her, and the load of number, owned bv A. Backus, Jr., & Co., Detroit, its scattered along the coast between Port Albert and Goderich. The cenduct of the tug is outrageous. The American Consul at Goderich attended to the needs of the crew, who were in a wretcbied plight, some shoeless, aud all suffering from their dreadful exposure. George McKay, Captain of the William Treat, ¦¦¦¦¦¦i 1-1 Hi 1 HIT— en ance wSnhceptaTnshorl. Coarse freights gen-ally are advancing, owing to the lateness of the season. Iron ore rates (to vessels chartered in Chicago) are $1.55c<vi.(>0 from Escanaba to Lake Erie ports: coal, Buffalo to Chicago, $1. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. is.—Coal freights firm with an advance of 10 cents. The proneller John Pridgeon was placed at $1.10 to Milwaukee, and the Fairbanks for Duluth at the same rate. The William Edwards was placed to arrive at going rates when loading. The schooner St. Lawrence for Racine, at $1.25 per ton. Canal freights quiet at4.*3c on corn and De on wheat Wind south fresh. Messrs. Corcoran and Wilson, the purchasers of the Oakland, swamped off Conneaut, took the tug Erie Saturday, with the Perry's hawser, and 4 tuTnedTronTWroTliioTwhere"hZrh£T\£m en went where the Oakland was reported to be with her b.ow eight feet above water off Conneaut, but after cruising around all day, fifteen miles out, found nothing but a piece of the Oakland's gang-way, and that in the vicinity where she was reported to have been seen. It ia the impression that she has gone down. DAVIDSON AND VULCAN. 7 THE FORMER A TOTAL LOSS. Captain G. H. McQueen telegraphed to the insurance agents yesterday that the Davidson had broken in two auid was a total loss, at once abandomed her to the insurance companies. The tug Winslow, which was dispatched to her assistance, its still there, and the tug Swain has also been despatched to assist the Winslow in getting her offi'. It is thought that four steam pumps will free her and that the two tugs will be able to pull her off. Captain McLeod is in charge of the wrecking expedition in the interests of the insurance companies. The heavy southwest seas are said to have damaged the Davidson consider-oh1V nl'Brajlfl!^liWyjit-i^^--^;;-*^^',»1>1"*........""*~~~?2 LVSTj"- HBI3 " J US L l1 (i - THE CAUSE. EVIDENCE IN THE COLOEADO DISASTEIi. ' Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 17.—The. testimony of.- _________ j Captain W. H. Cabot before the coroner's jury in the case of the Colorado explosion was very im- •'"]] A R h'S. portant. Captain Cabot was acting as second mate. He said his home was in Ludington, . Mich., and that for a number of years he had | been a shipmaster on the lakes. , He went on to the Colorado as second mate at Chicago, just before she came to Buffalo. His duties were to stay on watch half the time, to superintend loading and unloading, and look after things generally. "We left the dock," continued the witness, "shortly before 8 o'clock on thei night of the explosion. The boiler was blowing off at the time. This did not strike me as anything out of the way at first,! butBSam. increased somewhat, and finally was so loud that when I sung out I had to run! for'd to make the captain hear. The boat hacf acted badly in working about the creek the nighf before, at which time the engine didn't seem " it answer her bells promptly. Owing to this we hafi run down a canalboat, and, probably fearing aif other accident of some kind—for already we had come within an ace of striking a pier—the captain whistled for a tug, and we were towed oft. When about abreast of the breakwater the Ifig , let go the line, aud I went into supper. At ifce ;l table we spoke of the blowing off, and queqfjy |( enough the conversation drifted to Ac-plosions. I felt anxious, but didn't wlit j to spin yarns, as I was in a huiy The owners li *° .net through supper and have the lamhs 1 ;i hoisted. As I came out from supper and startle! j aft I saw through the door in the bulkheads tl» engineer and another man on tip-toe reaching u] < to the safety-valve. I couldn't see what the' were doing with it. Then they sang out 'look oui ¦ below tliere,' as though they were about to drop The blowing ¦ Atl dd be hushed down as though smoth-1 lien it wonld gradually increase louder, ] louder, louder, till it was a.-, strong as ever. When ~"Jame amee <>u,n gaged in raising: the unburned portion of the tug Vulcan's hull. The work of raising it was in charge of Geo. .Daily, of Toledo. The hull was found to be uselless. but the boiler and engine are in good conditiom, and will probably do service again in a steannbarge.—Detroit Free Press. FREIGHTS. THE CONI>rriON OF THINGS YJS9TERDA.X. The Buffalo rates were weaker, ruling at 3i3c corn and 3•¦+o wheat. The Midland rates were 314c and 3^0 porn; oats to Sarnia, day's engagements were as follows: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Seamen's wages are $3 out of all the principal ports. Captains arriving from Lake Superior report eevere snowstorms there. The damaged propeller Colorado is offered for pale at Buffalo. See advertisement elsewhere. The propeller George T. Hope Is chartered for wheat from Duluth to Buffalo at 10 per cent above Chicago rates. It is said five new propellers are to be built foi the Toledo and Ogdensburg and Ogdensburg and Chicago routes. Detroit Free Press: "A sailor named Johr Lynn, aged 22 years, was killed on Wednesday while crossing Saginaw Bay by a falling boom. He was a native of Ashtabula." The propeller Buckeye and consort York State co to Cleveland from Buffalo for coal to St. Ignace. T her return from Alpena to Buffalo with lumber at $2.50 per thousand. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Wlben the tug D. L, Babcock comes out again— . wliii-h will be shortly—she will he in good condi-n hull, boiler, and machinery. Captain David Dall is the owner now, and his property is al-wa> p well kept up. The Babcock has anew steel boil) ;¦- The new tug, Bob Teed, is a popular* boat already. The BChooner H. D, Moore is in dry-dock at the Chicago Company's yard. Ira Owen's new tug, the Delta, is about completed. She goes to Escanaba. Captain George . will command her. The schooner Sliffo takes a cargp of 2,500 barrels of pork and 1,487 sacks of bacon to Fort Arthur, Ontario. The big schooner Golden Age came up to the Bennett elevator with her 93,500 bushels of corn on Thursday eveniiiir, aud yesterday morning the water had gone down so that she was aground. This made some tov/ing and lightering necessary to bring her hatches to the leg. She drew full fifteen feet of water forward.— Buffalo Express. There is a rock lying three feet below water ti , . ¦ between Killarney aud Col- . 1 >od, eleven and one-half miles oast by ¦ bait north of Lonely Island. A buoy is to ced on it soon. The schooner E. P. Beals takes a cargo of 23,-000 bushels of hard Duluth wheat to Ogdensburg. This is the first shipment of the kind this season and looks a little.curious, as she brought tn'a cargo of wheat.- Buffalo Express. The steamshin Iron Dui© has delivered an al* leged 47,000 bushel carVro 'of wheat a; BuiTaio which was brought out of Duluth and which was 1,200 bushels short. The Leviathan, Captain August Rlebel in command, arrived here on Sunday morning last and Will be stationed here during the remainder of the season, outfitted with everything necessary . for the relief of vessels in distress.—Escanaba Ir-n, fori. The J. B. Lyon takes a cargo of corn instead of wheat. &* was at first intended. The new tug Delta is all ready, and will leave for Escanaba to- day. Captain Bartlett. who " came from Escanaba, is in charge. The schooner Two Fannies, which was reported is dismantled on Lake Huron, arrived in Chicago yesterday. She has coal from Buffalo. a dispatch to the owner announces that the ine Nilsson, lumber loaded fot Chicago, shifted her deckload outside and put into Racine to right ii. lr is likely 1 hat a portion of the deckload was lost. The vessel will be here this morning. THE LYCOMING. RIGHTING THE BECOED. , To the Editor of The Inter Ocean. Euie, Pa., Oct. 16.—Your correspondent noticed in the Times of Oct. 15 that "the propeller Lycoming, Captain Sisson," ran back to Chicago in the big blow of the 13th or 14th, In the first place Captain Sisson is not master of the Lycoming, but the Clarion. Secondly, the propellers Clarion and Lycoming were both on Lake Erie during that storm, and of course could not run back into Chicago. Captain Todd, of the Lycoming, has been sailing vessels of all kinds on Jthe lakes for twenty-five years, and has never yet run bock into Chicago on account of weather. The Times man may expect to sec the Clarion in Chicago on Wednesday, Oct 17, and the Lycoming on Friday, Oct. JO. E. L. W. " WIELLAND CANAL. NOTICE TO VESSEL MEN. St. Cathabises, Oct. 9.—A semaphore signal has been erected on the west bank of the canal, on tne curve near Humberstone Bridge, to warn vessels to stop when the red signal is exhibited, to avoid danger of collision. Vessel men are required to keep a sharp look out for the abioye, as well as the semaphores north and south of Welland Aqueduct, and are required to stop until the danger signals are removed. Vessels drawi.ng only 11 feet (> inches are more likely to pass through the Welland Aqueduct without detention than if loaded deeper, now the level of the lake is falling. William Ellis, Superintendent. louder, the explosion occurred—about twenty minutes after I came on deek lixmi eating—I the smoke-stack, and ling toward the cabin." In reply her queries, bi ic passed through the engine-room .. hile taking on freight, and from what he saw believed Allen to have been drunk. He did net n< >\ ¦ with Lovett. He had only known him from Chi- cago down, but during thai time he had not seen 4 him drink anything intoxicating. One of the while i:' port, but ch one the witness did nor know. At 1 he ' time of the blow-up the vessel was laying head In. [n the opinion of the witness the cause of the explosion was thai the boiler had on more steam ¦ could carry. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, The propeller Roanoke was unable to get through the Welland Canal aqueduct on account of the low water occasioned by thd east* northerly winds which prevailed there from Saturday night until yesterday. The schooner Sam Cook, which was sunk in the St. Lawrence River some Clme ago, has been raised eighteen feet, and divers are at work patching her bottom, with a view to saving her. The schooner Queen of the Lakes brought to THE LEFE-SAVTNG SERVICE. A GOOD EECOBD FOB BACINE CREW. A reporter visited the Life-Saving Station yesterday, and foiund everything in apple-pie order, The construction of Captain Thomas Wilson's in fact a neateir aud cleaner station could not be new boat is progressing finely at Quayles ship- Cleveland four anchors, weighing from one-half to a full ton each, and seven?? lengths of vessel chain, which arc said to have been fished, from PftYY.jffffflR' }nrA"M T'" " *......."" " n "ir*~~ The FBEIGHTS. THE SITUATION YESTERDAY. Corn to Buffalo, 3\tc; wheat, 3;V-*- Charters were: repairs on the schooner Groton have been completed at Buffalo, and the vessel is now loading steel rail. The Groton went on the beach, near Buffalo in the fall of 18S2, and was released last spring. Being abandoned as a total loss, she was bought by Smith & Davis for #2,600. Her hull needed but little repairing, and she now rates A 2. Captain John Carr, formerly mate of the Red Wing, ia her master. found on the sihores of Lake Michigan. By look' ing over the rcecords for the year, it is found thai the crew have done excellent service, althougt the number of wrecks is not so large as in f orrnei years. The cnew was organized on April 2, 188'. and is composed of Captain John Sandburg, Charles Kittle;, Nils Johnson, Charles Larson, Chris Johnson., Carl Benson, Robert Peterson, Andrcw'Hanson, ana George Brackenfieldt. They ary all old Bafflers, and have never been known to flinch from dtttty. They drill twice each week, once in the boats. The first wreck of the season was the three-mastsd schoomer Speed. She went ashoro on the night of April 13, at 9 o'clock, just north of the harbor piers. The life-saving crew eot out their boats, run alhne from the vessel to the light house pier, and with the beach apparatus, rescued the captain of the vessel and four sailors. The craft proved a total wreck. On the morniing of May 1.0, the small schooner Capelle was discovered on the beach three miles north of the hairbor piers. The life boat crew was manned and went to the stranded vessel, rescuing the ciaptain in an exhausted condition. He was cared tfor at the station until he fully recovered. One; other sailor floated ashore on a* raft. The Caipelle was released by the revenue steamer Andrcew Johnson and towed into port. The schooner Walter Smith, laden with slabs went ashore aibove North Point on July 24. The life-saving cre>w rendered excellent service in running lines and! throwing the deck-load overboard. The tug Knapff) pulled the vessel off before she sustained any particular damage. On Aug. 23 the steambarge Edward Smith, laden with coal, went on the reef and the life crew were on hand aud rendered valuable . as- SeDt. 25 the schooner J. Harrison arrived water-logged, and the life-saving crew helped pump her out and rendered other assistance. Oct. 11 the crew discovered the Annie Thorne close into the shore. A tug was summoned and the craft towed into port. During the season the crew report that an average of 25 vessels per day have passed this port.—Macinm Journal. ^ Cleared for Escanaba—Onoko and schooner Maria Martin. Mtwaukee, Wis., Oct. 18.—Reports from Port Washington amd Racine say a large quantity of lumber, and all Racine, some wreckage, has been washed ashore, aud there are fears of some disasters yet unknown. Captain P. 0. Maxon went to Sheboygan To-day, and reports that nothing remains' pf the schooner Petrel, that struck the j pier night before last, A special to the Sentinel from Sturgeon Bay I save: Captaun Bobbins, of the Life-saving ' Service, and Jesse Spalding, of Chicago, to-day, selected a site for a new life-saving station at that point, and a station will be built in the spring on land on the casual cut ceded to the government by the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Company, of which j/ The captain <of the schooner Gardner, wrecked near the South Point of Thunder Bav, says that the Gardner, in tow of the John Pridgeon, Jr , was making T£mnder Bay for shelter. The sea-was very heavy. The Gardner let go the towline, as it was thought she could reach the bay better alone. Her rudder got disabled, and, as she was unable to reach the harbor, she started for Tawas. Be was unable to manage the vessel, and she drifted toward shore. The anchors let go wohld not bold. The Gardner drifted on a reef, and soon broke in two, the sea washing over her. The cr .. made ; he afeore in the yawl ¦MMSB]«IBiBW'lJl«l? "" 111 A over : Manitowoc,. Oct. 17.—A brisk southeasterly Wind is* prevaiiling here and a heavy sea is running outside. The list of vessels in nort is as follows: Schoonters Mineral State, Melltta, Glen Cuyley, Ellen <'¦- Cocnaren, Wm. Aldrieh, isolda Bock, S. P. Neilson, Ellen Stephenson, Lydia, Graham Brothurs; steambarge Lewis Phalon; steamers Mnaikegcn and Corona: steambarge City of New Work aud tow, H. G. Potter and Brooklyn; prcqpeller Bhecklrm» yard in Cleveland. Within the last two days it has been decided to put steam in her as a pro-pellinc power. The contract lor the engine has just been made with the Globe Iron Works. The entire 90st oi the new craft, including this last Cffi.tract, is put at $100,000, ..... ^'Rec6?or>Ta»-fi^do-y^^ep4ay^Tf'TrTg quarter of the tug G. R. Green by C. A. Higgins to Herman Ollhoff tor ^500; also of the sale of the steamyacht Carrie Mather by E. B. Fuller, of Port Sherman, Mich., to Adam and Fred Schraut, of Sheboygan, for $2,200. Morris Van Platen has sold to John Savcland. F. C. Maxon, and M. O. Parker one-half of the schooner Ruby for $1,200. AU claims against the vessel should be presented immediately at the Independent Tu? Office.—Milwaukee Sentinel. A "DECOY" LIGHT. WABNING TO NAVIGATOBS. Electric lights are burning nightly in Lincoln Park now. Pleasnro seekers and others consider these lights a great improvement, and are full of gratitude to the park commissioners. Two of these lights, however, are on the lake shore, and are most dangerous to the marine interest. They are different, of course, but might, at a distance, be easily confounded with Chicago harbor lights, and vessels thus be wrecked and lost. This notice of the matter is made so that vessel-masters will be acquainted with the fact that there are new electric lights on the beach at Lincoln Park-about three miles north of Chicago piers. NOTICE TO MARINERS. taking in the buoys. Office of Light-house Inspeotob, Detboit, Mich., Oct. 18.—On or about Nov. 1 the lighthouse tender Dahlia will begin removing the iron can buoys marking dangers to navigation in Lake Huron, Straits of Mackinac, and adjacent waters. Spars, painted the proper colors, will be substituted, and allowed to remain until carried away by ice. Bv order of the Light-house Board, F. a! Cook, Commander, U. S. N., Inspector Eleventh District, FREIGHTS. NO CHANGE IN RATES. Grain freights were steady on the basis of 3*4C corn to Buffalo, and 3%£'3^0 wheat. Charters were as follows: MILWAUKEE TO BUFFALO. The propeller Conestoga and the steamship Fred Mercur load wheat at Milwaukee for Buffalo. The two cargoes will be about 120,000 bushels. The demand for tonnage at Milwaukee j has the effect of strengthening freight rates at Chicago. Special Telegram to The Infer Ocean. BcFi'ALO, N. Y„ Oct. 19.—Coal freights firm at $1.10 for Chicago and Milwaukee; $1.25 could be obtained for a spot vessel. Engagements: Prop C. J. Kershaw and Cuba, for Milwaukee, at $1.10. Canal freights remain unchanged at 5c on wheat, and -l^jo on corn. The Iron Age, from Duluth, was short 03 bushels of wheat; the City of Rome over-run 220 bushels of corn. . Wind southwest, fresh. "WARNING. SHKBOTGAN HABBOB. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Sheboygan, Wis., Oct. 19.- Vessels making this harbor should be careful, as the old hull of the wrecked schooner Petrel lies 600 or 700 feet inside the pier, and vessels coming in should keep the north pier to atairboard. It will require the Andy Jounson to tow her out in the lake, as she lies in government waters. She was stripped by the life-saving crew tto-day.