, 1881-05-29
Active inquiry tut seose''noo''s W
Shippers, and Rates Tending
Upward.
Charters to Buffalo at 4 1-2
Cents for Corn and s Cents
for Wheat.
The James Couch Makes the First
Round Trip from Buffalo This
Season.
A Big Lumber Fleet, Delayed by
Head Winds, Hourly Ex-
pected.
Accident to the Tug ". l.. Ewing
While Towing Two Yes
sells.
Noteworthy Towing by the Vessel
Owners Association Ing Salts
faction.


| HOME GATHERINGS
| LAKE FREIGs1Ts.
| There is still an active inquiry for vcsse
| room by grain shippers, and rates have an up
ward tendency. For Buffalo ~ cents was pah
| OIL corn saturday, whcut being nonatnnily i
! cents. The engagements announced we're
| Propeller Nyack. $1,000 bushels wheat, through
! rate; propeller Preston, 6o0W bushels corn
| through; propeller Fountain City, 1000 bushels
corn through: schooner Ida Keith. IS QUO bushels
| corn, T.: cents. For Snrniu-Schooner Amcri-
| can Union, ta 600 bushels corn, through. For
! Eric-Propcller Alaska, I,0D bushels corn nj
~ cents. Lumber freights continue firm.
THE CITY or sILwArkEE.
The magnificent new iron sidewhccl steamer
City Of Milwaukee will leave Detroit Jnne for
Milwaukee, and will commence to ply between
Grand Haven and Milwaukee. in connection
With the Detroit & Milwaukee Railway.
THE PROPELLER BOSTON.
The Western Transportation Colnpany's pro-
pcller Boston arrived yesterday afternoon from
buffalo With n heavy cargo OF merchandise.
The Fountain City, of tho same line, Is duo this
afternoon.
ACCIDENT TO THE TCG W. L. EWING.
The Vessel Owners Towing Association tug
". l.. Ewing while towing two schoone-s ont
into the lake yesterday slipped her eccentric
and had to be towed back To her dock.
FIRE ON 4 LUMEER SC0W*
4 lot Of cedar posts on scow towcd By tho
tug Latham caught Are from sparks. The tlre.
after slight damage, was put out by the hose on
the Latham-
THE FIRST ROUND TRIP THIS SEASON.
The schooner james Couch arrived from Buff
falo yesterday, the first vessel to make tho
round trip between that port and this city this
season.
The tug Satisfaction yesterday brought up to
the lumber docks the schooner Alice Richards,
iron ore laden, and the sch0onerS DlackhaWk
mud Lu1nberulun. lumber laden, at one tow. a
tcat seldom accomplished ut this port The Cap
tnin naturally feels quite elated at the achieve
ncur.
DOCK ITEMS.
A big lumber neet delayed by head winds, is
hourly expected.
There was but one vessel at the lumber mar
kct yesterday, the Sailor Boy.
The towing tug Fayorre and tow arrived from
Menominee yesterday afternoon:
There were only thirty arrivals at Inis port
The wages t0r sailors shipping from this port
The river yesterday was exceedingly bare Of
.apt. Mckee, the crib -kcepet. had an ample
supply of the neccssarcs OF life taken out to
him yesterday py the tu9 Martin.
Not vessel is In dry-dock here at present.
DAMAGES AWARDED FOR 4 COLLISION.
On the evening of the 9th Of October. 1877,
the schooner Helen BLOOD. bound for Muskegon.
light, wAs run into by the Western Transportn-
tton propeller nadser State: The Captain, who
deck and severely injured. Subsequently suits
were brought ngainst the propeiler-owners by
the Captain and owncrs Of The Blood for S1.ooo
damages Ia each case. and yesterday. ia the
United States District Court judge Hlodgett
presiding. decree was rendered in both cases
against the propeller; The complanaats were
represented by {. E. krcu,er, of this city, und
the defendants by Miller & Frost, Of Chicago,
and George b. Hbbard, of Buffalo.