The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-05-18
MARINE ITEMS.

ashore during the late gale.
TIE schooner Jesse Winter, loaded
with lumber, went ashore near Sheboy-
gan last week.
THE schooner Petrol ashore near Ke
waunee will prove total loss. She ha,
been abandoned.
REPAIRS have been completed on the
Buckeye and she less the dock in Mil
Yankee on Tuesday.
The new scow built for Byron Bur
meist+r by NJ. Ornes, was launched yes
terday and called Mishicott.
THE tug Geo. Pankratz came in Tues
day morning from Peshtigo with the first
scow load of logs this season.
The steamship Onoko left Chicago
with 100, 900 bushels Of corn, the largest
cargo of grain ever foated on the lakes.
THE schooner Glen Cuyler brought 9
cargo of building stone from Sister Bay
for Mr.. Torrison's new building, this
week.
On Tuesday night of last week the
schooner Mary L. Higgie went ashore al
Pilot Island. She had $50 tons of iron
ore on.
STEAMBOAT builders are experimenting
on the Hudson with boat that will be
self righting and cannot sink until blown
to pieces.
The schooner Petrol has been taken
off the beach near Ahnapee, notwith.
standing that her owner contemplated
abandoning her.
THE harbor was literally crowded with
vessels and steamers during the blow OF
last week, and many of the smaller one,
remained until Tuesday morning.
The Andy Johnson was in port yester-
day and this morning. She is little
short of officers having only Captain
Davis, Lieutenants Slamm and Burke.
The monster steamship, the Onoko,
met with an accident at Chicago. While
on her way to an elevator she struck an
abutment of bridge and knocked large
hole in her bow.
THE schooner Reindeer reached Esca.
kaba on Monday with her crew in starv.
ing condition. They were so reduced
as to be compelled to eat the grease used
in greasing the masts.
A WOMAN cook on board the schooner
Harvey Bissel shot herself through the
heart last week at Sturgeon Bay. She
was prepossessing lady and the cause
of the act remains mystery.
The Louisa Mcdonald, which suffered
from collision with the Harvey Bissel,
was towed into this place by the tug o.
B. Green. and is now at the yard of Han
son & Scove undergoing repairs.
CONSIDERABLE criticism has been pro
voked by the shooting of Miss German,
the female cook on the schooner Harvey
Bissel, which can not sound pleasingly
in the ears of the captain of that craft.
THE docks at Escanaba are full of ore,
while the head winds prevent vessels
from reaching there. There have been
14S, I19 tons of ore shipped from Escana
la this season; $4,000 tons from Mar
quette and 1,647 tons from L'Anse.
JUDGE BLoDGETT set aside the APP
praisal of the Leland which was so low
as to indicate fraudulent intent, the OBJ
iect of the low appraisal being to escape
paying the full loss Of the schooner E..
NJ Portch which was cut down by the
Leland.
THE scow Lottie Mason went ashore a,
Two Rivers Point near the Grace Patter
son. The tug Cyclone went to her re-
lief on Saturday and succeeded in getting
her off that night. This is the only yes
gel that was rescued from the Point, save
one which was hauled out, repairs made
and then launched. Captain Edwards
knows how to do those things.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Inter Ocean
is very bitter on the revenue cutter Andy
Johnson, on account of her failure tc
give succor to distressed vessels during
the storm of last week. The officers, the
correspondent says, have positive orders
to assist craft in distress, but determin
edly remained within the harbor.