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s /> iiux /C i. n i-:.marks. SUNSET ON THE BEACH. .*- THE AMEKICAN EAGLE. DEAD AND DYING—THE BEATS BACTNG. Kelly Island, May 18.—The steamer Cooke hae arrived at the dock. J. Bittle, the fireman, is reported dead, also Frank Walter, a deck hand is in a dying condition. The engineer, Johnson, is scalded on the hands and face, not very seriously, John Lutes, his wife and daughter, are all scalded, but not dangerously. Gilbert a dealer in pianos at Sandusky, is quite seriously scalded. Captain Maele is not hurt. The boiler, ¦burst in the steam drum, very much as the Alaska did two years ago. The soot mingled with the steam so as to blacken the whole boat. The hull of the boat is not damaged. None of the bodies were lost. The Eagle and the Cooke were racing, at least the Eagle was out of her course, and apparently trying to go around the Cooke's bows. The Mystic has taken her in tow for Sandusky. ADDITIONAL PAKTICULAES. Sandusky, May" 18.—The passenger steamer American Eagle, running between this city aud Put-in-Bay, exploded her boiler at 4 o'clock this afternoon near Kelly Island. She is allowed by the government inspector to carry 106 pounds of steam, but had ou 110 pounds when the accident occurred. The whole inside of the dome of \ the boiler blew out, and the steam rushed back through the flues, burst the britchen, and filled: the engine-room and cabin. THE BOAT CAUGHT FTRE, and was with difficulty saved from burning. The steamer Cooke, which was about fifty rods away, went alongside and turned a stream of water on her, while the crew worked with buckets, Three of the Eagle's crew, Frank Bittel, of this city, fireman; Lorenz Neilson, of Put-in-Bay, and Frank Walter, of this city, deck hands, were killed. Engineer James W, Johnson, Put-in-Bay, was scalded so badly that he will die. Charles Kramer, Put-in-bay, severely scalded. Mate Hugo, steward, Put-in-Bay, head cut b y a piece of broken timber. Captain Fred Magle escaped unhurt. A piece of the boiler passed through the top of his hat. The following PASSENGERS WEB.E &CALDED: J. W. Gilbert and William Dilger, Sandusky, face and hands, severely. J. W. Lutes, wife and daughter. Middle Bass, face and hands, severely, especially Mrs. Lutes. James Pullotin, employe of the Cleveland Club House, Ballast Island, badly scalded about the face, hands aud arms. The dead and injured were brought here on tugs. The Eagle was towed here for repairs. It is currently reported hero that the Eagle was racing with the Cooke, but Captain Magle and Engineer Johnson deny it. i NEW CRAFT IN PORT, FOUE OF THEM YESTERDAY. The new propeller A. Weston, the arrival of which craft was announced in The Intee Ocean yesterday morning, will carry passengers as; well as freight. She was built at Mount Clemens. She has an engine 28x33, a boiler 9^x16, and a wheel 9 feet 6 inches in diameter. Her cargo is coal, which she took on at Toledo. She is of medium, size and well put together. The ntj)w steambarge A. J. Wright is also in port, witth the new barges H. Mills and W. A. Shermain, ail lumbeT loaded, from Alpena. The^ Wright nneasures 258 tons, was built by Mills &„ at BiufEalo, is owned by L. B. Fortier, of: uffalo;; is valued at $25,000, and rates A 1. Her achineery is all new. The Mills measures 509 ons andl, like the W. A. Sherman, is a good substantial > craft. The whole tow belongs to Cap-ain Forttier. Both the barges rate A 1. A MIXED AFFAIR. THIE DISASTER TO THE MAEY BRISKIE. The rmaster of the schooner Flying Mist, according to the Milwaukee dispatches, insists that the schajoner Mary Collins is not ashore at Bark Itiver; fchat the vessel there is the C. G, Mixer, He is all wrong. The Mixer is not in trouble at all. It is the Flying Mist man that is the mixer. In saying that the Mary Collins was ashore at Bark River The Inter Ocean was wrong, too, however. It is the Mary Briskie that is stranded. But the Mary Briskie was the Mary Collins until a short time aso, when her name was changed. That the Briskie is ashore there is not the least doubt, ithe intelligence coming here to Mr. Briskie, the present owner, in a dispatch from rami E. Thompson, with Bteam pmmps, etc., which left here to go to the Mary L. Higgie and the Briskie was in Milwaukee Suntday night for shelter and probably proceeded yyesterday. BURNING OF THE MANITOULIN". HOW THE INTELLIGENCE "WAS RECEIVED. Collingwood, Ont., May 19.—The City of Owen Sound, of the Canada Transit Company, arrived down at 8:30 o'clock this morning, with grain from Duluth. She took seventy-five men from Michipicston Island to Alogola Mills for Messrs. Sullivan, Marpole & Co., contractors on the Canada Pacific Railway. She reports having picked up the mate of the steamer Manitoulin, of the Great Northern Transit Company, in a sail boat bound for Killarney, about six miles from that port. He statesthat about j II a. m. on the morning of Thursday, the 18th ^ inst., while off Shoal Point about four miles ^ from Manitowaning, the Manitoulin took fire . and was completelv destroyed. While trying to lower one of the boats so many crowded into ner that the davits broke under the pressure, cap-Sizing the boat and throwing the people into the water, whereby Mr. rtober Henry, of Madge Bay, and a little girl (name as yet unknown} were drowned. The mate. Mr. Johnston, leaves for the burned vessel immd lately on the arrival j of Mr. A. Clark's tug, which was momentarily jjj expected at Killarney. DESCRIPTION OF THE CRAFT. The Manitoulin measured 400 tons. She was built at Owen Sound by John Simpson in 1880, was owned by J. Harrison, of Owen Sound wasi valued at $28,000, and rated A2. There is in-? surance for $16,000 in Canadian companies. A SUICIDE. While the Harvey Bissel was out in the lake today, a passenger. Miss May Gorman, of Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting herself. She died instantly. *__The government steamer Dahlia is tn port. ¦,,,?'Jb- special to The Republican. ^ Detroit, Mich., May 10.—The steambarge PrlnciviJle, while leaving Oscoda, at an early hour this morning, ran on a sand bar half a mile from shore. The crew ail succeeded in getting ashore before the Prindiville went down, at 1:30 o'clock this p. m. The whole cargo of lumber was lost. The Prindiv lie was built at Gibraltar, iu 1870, and was owned bv S. E. Potts. She was insured for $9000, which was also about the insur/ ¦sffiy'iffH»Ari'«tfBBani. " " yf Pprcial to The lXjiubtican. Tori "n:os, Mich., May 10.—The steambarge I; Prindiville sunk last nhrht at Oscoda. She is "deck • too" in twelve feet of water. A tug with Bteam pumps and wrecking gear will leave for her in the morning, weather permitting. Wind V now bowing a gale from the northea.-t, with it heavy rain.and thick wea ther^..^^^, ,———___ M CAPTAIN HARVEY BROWN. The many friends of Captain Harvey Brown, | so Ions a commander on the N. T. line, will be I pleased to learn that he has become master of j the large, fine propeller Wissahickon. He ar~ j rived here yesterday. 1 FREIGHTS. Kates continued yesterday at 2c on corn and '2 'ic wheat to buffalo. Corn to Kingston nomi-i-l at 4ljc. Engagements: AMOTHEK NEW STEAMSHIP. ARRrVAL YESTERDAY OP THE WALLULLA. The mew steamship Wallulla arrived in Chi-v ;ago yesiterday, coal loaded. Though a monster craft, of the very first class, and brand new, she]; attracted little more than passing notice, socomJ, mon are these grand craft in our harbor. The rating of the Wallulla i3 "A 1*," and upon inspection she is found to deserve all of it, for n better built, better equipped, better arrange* craft floats on the lakes. Her engines are beau ties and give her great power- The latest im provements are found in everything on and abouj her. The dimensions of the hull are as follows] Length over all, feet.........................275 | Breadth of beam, feet........................ 39r Depth o>f hoidj feet.......................... 221 She is; doiible-deckod and has cabins fore an<j aft. Tlnerd are four masts, schooner-rigged. The k;eel is sided 14 inches and molded 10 inches. The main keelsons are 16x16 inches]; assistamt keelsons, 11x16; rider, 14x11; floor Keeisoms, 10x14; bilge, y, 8, 7 inches. The ceil] ing to tihe lower deck is 6 inches; in the waisli betweem the gangways 2 and 3 inches, and above; the ganijiways 8 inches. The frames are molded] 17 indues at the center, 14 inches at the bilge* and 7 finches at the top.m They are placed 29 inches between centers. The lower deck beams,' are 10x10 and the upper 7x7 inches. The plank-; ing is: Garboard streaks, 6 inches; bottom, {9 inches; bilge, 3 inches; streaks, 6 inches: from; the bil^e to the gangways, 5 inches; from the^ bottom to the top of the gangways, 4 inches;! above the gangways, S inches. The hull is di-' aaonaUy iron strapped. She has an inncrj and an outer arch running 220 feet. Thd outer one is 10x7a inches, and the inside on<* 15x7s inches. The Globs Iron Works furnished the machin-! ery. She has fore and aft compound engines! The bijzh pressure is 30 inches and the low pres-t sure 06 inches, the stroke 48 inches. She haa two ste:el boilers 8 feet 8 inches in diameter and-17 feet loner. The wheel is 11 feet 10 inches lnl diameter, with a 14 foet lead. The outboard shaft iis 10^2 inches. She has an iron boiler house, iron beams, and pans under the boiler. There iis also a patent cover on the boiler. CapUain John Lowe is in command of the new steamsmip, with Thomas Kelley first engineer, and Joishua Wood second. All hionor to the Wallulla, even if she is named after tihe sound of the tug O. B. Green's Modoc whistle. Thomas Quayle's Sons reflected credit upon themselves by building her, and Captain Thomais Wilson is proud to own her. She cost $aboutt 130,000. MISCELLANEOUS. » A deck: hand named James Thompson, on the propeller Winslow, was lo3t whelrthe vessel WM of Hancock. The selhooner Elgin Was ashore at Amherst Island, but got off. Grain aates are going up at Chicago j 2c was paid on cor^ to Oanadffan p^rts on Lake Huron and Collingwood. The Miiltor/1>. Ward, bound up, and the tug Ooulton, hound dumw; on St. Clair Itiver, collided. The trig Was budly damped and was beached to prevent her Sinking. The OhiicitKO "Tribune" reports as follows—-" A number! of the tttS captains iu Smith* Cleveland line quietly quit, Work Sfetmrday niaht. They objected to shovelling coal and. KflVfl uotiice ef their intended action. The manager of » t\ig line at this port that would ass his captains to, shovel coal would be thrown into the rive*. Tug captains here wear kid gloves." There KtM a -story going the rounds of marine circles that' a sailor named (Jongh had beaten a captain at Cleveland. The Kingston "Willi" says:—"The report concerning a drubbing being given to Captain Saxie Brooks, bv Goutfh, is wholly untrue, HVa vessel cleared from Warden Inland for Luke Superior aud has not been in Toledo at all, nor did he aoe Gtenph at this or any port." INTO THE MAEINE HOSPITAL. The following seamen went into the .vta-rine Hospital yesterday: A. P. Johns, schooner C. A. King; John Whelan, propeller , B. W. Blanchard; James C.'arey, P^peller I Delaware; Daniel Hare, propeller.BLE But- . ier; Hairry Ward, propeller City of D^*™. Thomais Wilson, schooner Jesse Hoyt, JOM . McLeo.d, schooner Cecelia; Martin Ramertin, ] schoomer J. V. Taylor. EBEN KING'S BODY. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. St. Joseph, Mien., June 2G.—The body of Eben King, who was lost off the ill-fated schooner Industry three weeks atro at South Haven, was found to-day on the beach, and was brought fc'ome and buried to-night. Capcain Kins and Eddie Collander, the rest of the crew, were found last week and brought here and buried. Some #200 were found in Cautain King's Dockets, and $100 and some important papers in Eben Kind's pockets. THB AMERICAN PAYS THE DUTY. It has often been Said that the Americans pay the duty on whatever comes into 'Canada, and the captain of the Aniens can achooncr Samaria can testify to that (act. The schooner reached Kingston witth 22,000 bushels pf corn from Chicago He was Tt bushels shnwt, and he paid for that, but when the Ctist.Jin Ilimtso oiVic«r charged him the 7Jc duty per bushel on the shortage, he tricked. It wan Jii^h time On an ordts nary bill yffrettfhtthera in an allowance of one bushel p.-r 1.0C0 for shortage, brat hi* bill held no conditions for whort-a^e. He paid for his shortage and then was complied to pay duty on what be had not brought into our protected country ! He paid it under protent. BUFFALO NOTFN. Bitfpaxo, June Ift—Itator; higher at 3c on oore fn Sni- falo. Boom tak«B for 80,000 bn wheat and H'3,000 Im corn Tne charters of Saturday were made at Sfe on corn. Chicago to Buffalo. The boatH tako:i were the prop Chicago a.nd'it A Packar and scbr PeOMOkM, Capt Kanuny Bhwb, master and owner of the barze Col Bracket*, lying at the lighthouse pier, fell from the top of the cabin to the deck last evening and was very severely injured. It was the iron fcuj; A W Colton.and not the Nellie Cotton an stated in the despatches, which was Bttok by the steftttor Milton D Ward on Thursday morning. Kke- Orfftoo WM built by David Bell, of this city, and was one of the best tugs on the lake3. CITAllTEr.S. *. pETTtoiT, June 10.— Yesterday's charters were as follows--Sehra I heo \opes. wheat, Detroit to Buffalo, 2e ; Star of Hope, coal, Toledo to Hand Beach, 45c; Brooklyn, Mai%i Detroit to Buffalo, SI *tt, and £8 ; TnadiUa, iron ore, Escanaba to Cleveland, $1. Saknia June 10.— StrB Idylwild, Detroit; Ba-inaw, Fort Austin ; Hiawatha, Wallaceburg : Eclipse, Wallaceburg Departures -Sirs Idylwiid, Detroit ; Saginaw, Detroit ¦ JC Clark, Dresden ; Eclipse, Wallaceburg; Hiawatha, Wallaceburg. Buffalo, N.Y., June 10.—HailrUad freights to N"aw lork, Baltimore, and I'hiliidelphia. 9c on wheat Sic on corn, 5c on oats perbu, flour, 30cperbrl, or 1'V-per lot) lbs To Albany, grata, 13ic, and to Boston and New JOngland poiT:ts, 19Jc per 100 lbs. Elevatin;; storage and transferrin* elevating ioeludtng rive days' storage, three-riu irters of ¦* cent, per bushel : storage each succeeding ten days or parti thereof, one-quarter of one cent per bu. The Vessels pain addition to the above onc-eifthth of a cent per bu. " LAUNCH OF THE SIBERIA. Captain James Davidson's new steamship, the largest craft ever built in the Saginaw Valley, aud about as large a craft as wc have on the lakes, was launched at Bay City yesterday. Her name is the Siberia. Captain Davidson has; watehed her construction iu person, has spared no pains or expense to have her perfection it-l self, and has introduced various improvements not to he found in our lake craft generally. Th| dimensions are as follows: Length of Keel, feet..........................259 J Length overall, feet.......................280 ? Breadth of beam, feet....................... 40 I Depth of hold, feet............................19% The depth of hold from middle deck is 12 feet 4 inches; distance between decks, 7 feet % inches. Built alter the MODKL OX' OCEAN-GOING STEAMSHIPS, she has been made aa strong as wood and iron Ofin make Tier. Her main keelson is 16x16 iu. She has two sister keelsons 13x14 inches running forward and aft; six floor keelsons 12x13 inches; two streaks of bilge keelsons of 12x12 inches; two streaks of 1.0x10 inches, and two streakn of '8x8 inches. These immense timbers give her an almost solid floor. Her ceiling is O^fl inches,with lour streaKS of clamps7*5 inches. She is double futtoeked aud double floored. Her planking on the bottom is 4X3 inches thick, 5 inches at the bilge and 4:;4 inches ou top. Her frames are 17 inches in thickness at the keel, 14 iuches at the bilge, aud 7^ inches on top. These immense frames are strengthened by an iron girt Iti inches wide and 7$ of an inch thick, fastened through and through, running fore and aft. To this are riveted iron bands 5 inches wide and ;U of an inch thick, which take a diagonal course to the turn of the biige and then take the floor. They commence at every opening of frame, crossing twice, and are solidly riveted at each crossing. An iron arch 3 inches wide by % of an inch thick extends from urmind the fantail, forward,which, with the rest, makes a complete network of iron bauds (.round the •boat, imparting'great Streugtu and firmness, THE1CABINS are on deck. The eating-rooms and anartments of some of the crew are aft. They run from aft forward 5G feet, and are 37 feet wide. They are arranged in modern style, being commodious I aud affording every convenience. Forward is j the pilot-house, llx.il feet, and texas 10x10 ^ feet. The guarters of the captain aud other I officers are located here, exrjept those of the l engineers, which are in the after cabin. She J has six hatchways. HEK MACHINERY. The new craft has great Dower. She has a$ fore-and-aft compound engine, the high press-: ure measuring 3S inches with 50-inch strokeJ aud the low pressure 36 inches, with same stroke. She has two ^-inch steel boilers. Theyt are 14 feet long and 8 feet shell. Each has a-5x11 feet dome. She is supplied with iniectors,? a pony engine, steam pump on deck, steam hoist-' Ing apparatus, etc. THEEE ABE THESE MASTS, and they are to be rigged in regular ocean style. She has a patent marine steam windlass. The cable is 1*2 ana 1;>q inches in diameter. She has two patent flue anchors. IMMENSE CAPACITY. The custom house measurement of the Siberia is 1,618.26 tons. Her real carrying capacity will be about 2,000 tons. She is expected to carry 80,000 bushels of corn on a draught off 14 feet 6 inches of water. The cost of the new steamship complete will have been $120,0O0. A. C. llosa, of Buffalo, is the builder, the same man who huilt the Oceanica, Conemaugh, and Lycoming'; The Siberia will ply between Chicago and Lake Erie ports in the grain trade, and will Drove a most important addition to our lake fleets. Captain Davidson, the owner, is to be congratulated. ^ Cleaveland, Ohio, Jume 3.—Charters—Steambarge Kershaw and schir JViontauk, coal to Chicago, 75 cents: steambiorge Good Hit, coal to Brockville, $1.40; stearmbarge Macv, ore, Marquette to Erie, $1,25: schir Beats, coal, Lorain to Milwaukee, 75 cents; sclix Card, coal, Toledo to Marquette, private terms;; schr Porter, coal, Toledo to Milwaukee, 75 cients; Schr liedington, coai to Duluth ou private terms, and ore back from Marquette at $1.25. BEST ON SECORD. The m#.ster of the schooner Kockaway is not given to bragging, but he does want credit for a most remarkable trip. The vessel made the round trip between Chicago and Muskegon, loading 210,000 feet of lramber, and return in thirty-five hours. The cargo was loaded at Muskegon in three and a half hours. I I % m h BULLY EOB THE BOSCOBEL. The propeller Boscobed, Captain Nicholson, left Chicago on the mornimg of the 1st (Thursday) at 8:30, towing two (barges; made the run toPeshtigo in twenty-five and a quarter hours; laid at Peshtigo five hours., aqpt made the run fromPeshtigo to Chicago in thirty-six and a quarter hours, and arrivedl here yesterday morning at 3o'clock, towing two barges, making the rouud trip in sixty-six and a half hours. She had a head wind going north and a fair wind coming this way; running; time, sixty-one and a half hours. The barges wvere the Manteuee and Advance, the combined cairgoes of which, made 1,000,000 feet. NEW WINTER STEAMER. The steamer P. and P. Ht No. 1, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Compainy, was successfully launched bat irday afternoon. The steamer is intended to run as a summer aud winter passenger and freight boat on Lake Michigan, between Ludington and Milwaukee, in connection with the Flint aud Peire Marquette Railway, and one exactly similar to her, to be named F. and P. M. No. 2, is ueardng completion at the Suringwells dry dock. Her-principal dimensions are as follows: Length, 1-.U0 feet; beam, 30 feet; depth of nold, 13 teet 6 incnes. She is built with a bow similar to the Michigan and Wisconsin, and after the model iof tne Detroit River ferry steamers, so as to be able to crush her way through the ice in winter. Her wood work forward is solid, and she will be heavily plated for ice-smashing. She is built of heavy umber and is diagonally Iron-strapped. She has a passenger cabin the full length of her promenade deck. Her engine is a fore-and-aft compound with cylinders 21 and 37x36. built bv the dry dock engina works, and will be: supplied with steam from a steel boiler 8 feel tii inches shell by 10 feet m length, and capable of working at a pressure of 110 pounds to t,ue square inch. CnAfcT'ERS. Detroit, June 1.—The following; charters were reported yesterday:—Schra Grace Amellia, ties, Au Sable to Cleve" land, 9c each ; steambarge Eve iind burgos Mnyyit; and For*-tune, posts and tlw, Georjjiim Bay to Chicago, 8e on ties and 5c on posts, BuifFAi.o, June -Coal ralr.es very firm, 6Gc to CI and 70c to Milwaukee. The oiuly charter reported was the schr Willie Keller, coal to Detroit, at 40c. Canal freights are dull. Lumber to New Vmrk Is 2^c lower. Quoted -Wheat, 4|c : corn. 3^c to 3|c : bomber to .New York .*3 per M., and i|2 50 to Albany. Chicago, June 1.—Schr Femokee, Kingston, corn, 41c. Props St Magnus and Olfcio, tmrti to Montreal on through rate ; the through rate to iiosto<n, via Buffalo, was 12c, and to -Sew York, via Buffalo, 6; ¦ >iWi::.LA RHD1 %. The marine OOlumnof the Ctiiwe?o "Palladium" is growing—well, it is going out of wight. And there must be something doing down there smrely. There is a large amount of Wrork to do in Chicago harbour. Last year there were two harboour masters ; this year there are three. Tt is a surprise to saillors how the port of Toronto can support three harbour mastfcers. FirlSne McFarlane, firet mata on tht propeller fto<: was brought before United EJtettes Commissioner Strong a few days ago on a charge of assault, atnl battery on the high seas, preferred by Robert. May. a sailor ou board the propeller. The evidence .addiuced showed that May and three other sailors refus..;! to <do duty on the 24th Inst, on Lake Huron, whereupon MeFcarlane seized May. dragged him over the deck, and convfiueu him. with the other kiekers, in the ehainslGCker tow six hours. Commissioner Strong yesterday rendered a d' iclaion honourably acquitting MeFarlane. A Kin; ston exchange says:—The (Vmu.uernr proceeded to St. Cat'narines. On board nre Captain John Donnelly's father ami mother, who inter.id residing in future in St. Catharines, where the captairti has a brother. The old couple have lived in this Ticiniity for about forty years, and during that time have gained tine respect and esteem of the neople with whom they are acquainted. The Conqueror will bring a raft down from Toironto. / Owen Souni>, June 1.— The iprop Canada, of the New England Transportation Company's lintVxlmt ran ashore at" White Cloud Island on Mondiuy night, is still in the sTftw* position. She is fully protected from almost all kinds of weather, arid it is expected thnat she will be released'with, little damage. The wrecking tuig Mary Ann is expected to ' "e fcoMiight or ¦ early to-morrow. ws. \S/] no- to pieces at riuerly the pro-i she was once, aft on the Chi- 'lllll I"IT(H7!aiio1w DISASTJKB NEWS. THE ONCE PP.OUDI CUYAHOGA. The barge Cuyahoga,, going to pieces at Sable, Lake Huron, wtae formerly the propeller Cuyahosra, and as such she was once, years ago, a most popuhur craft on the Chi-catro and Lake Superior rxoufce, and previously on the Chicago and Buii';ulo route. She measured 729 tons, was buiiit at Cleveland in L855 by Mason & Co., aiud was consequently in her 27th year. Wagnter and others were her last owners. In tine recent storm she broke away from her steamer and went ashore at ^bjp, »a atnt^riri SAILOR ICILLED. Special Telegram to Tne lutecr Ocean. Pokt Dalhousie, Ont., JJune 29.— A sailor on the schooner Louisa, naurued Henry Sheridan fell from the fore rigging tco the deck this afternoon while assisting to maake sail, and was instantly killed. Deceased was unmarried and his people live in St. Cathccrines. ' *2 * ¦