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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, September 2, 1880 VOL. XIII. OLD SERIES, NO. 53 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 15 LOCAL MATTERS ------------- The schooner ANNA MARIA, Captain J. H. Britton, made another remarkably quick trip to Chicago and back, leaving here last Saturday and returning on Tuesday. According to anticipations in our last issue, the schooner MERCURY was successfully brought into port last Saturday by the wrecking tug J. HAGERMAN. The diver examined the vessel after getting into port, and found several plank off one quarter, so that she could not be taken to Milwaukee for repairs as originall intended. The vessel is now lying at the ship yard near the planing mill and will be taken out for repairs as soon as arrangements can be made. Captain Sterling expects to have the MERCURY in sailing trim again by October 15, after a thorough repair. He expects her to class A 2. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- The tow-barge SAGINAW, of Detroit, lumber laden, from Bay City for Tonawanda, N.Y., waterlogged in Lake Erie, off Port Stanley, Ont., about 3 o'clock Thursday morning and had to be abandoned. In company with the barges COMMODORE PECK and GOULD, she was being towed by the tug SUMNER. The SAGINAW was the last barge of the tow, and had her bow torn out, being left with the bare deck. On board were Capt. J. A. Bunting, steward A. J. **udo and a crew of four men. They were picked up by a Milwaukee schooner after floating on the deck load for 15 hours. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, September 9, 1880 VOL. XIV. OLD SERIES, NO. 1 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 16 LOCAL MATTERS ------------- Some of our city merchants are anxiously looking for the DAISY DAY. Short on sugar. Guyles & Nash received a cargo of brick last Monday by the schooner GLEN CUYLER. Messrs. Goodenough & Olney shipped a cargo of bark this week, on the schooner DAY SPRING. Another week will close the bark season. The schooner MERCURY is now on the ways, and will be taken out of the water for repairs as soon as possible. The enorous weight of the vessel, full of wet lumber and sand, will make it a tedious job owing to the want of facilities. The new propeller, CITY OF LUDINGTON, built at Manitowoc by Rand & Berger for the Goodrich line, to trade between here and Milwaukee, was launched las Saturday. The intention is to tow her to Chicago where she will receive her boiler, then be towed back to Manitowoc and be finished there. Last Tuesday morning a fishing craft capsized off the harbor while heavily laden with fish. The boat would have sank had it not been for the air confined in the bows or forecastle. The two men who were on board at the time of the accident succeeded in getting hold of the stem, that being the only part above the water, and held on until rescued by a boat sent from the schooner DAYSPRING. The tug MARGARET had the DAYSPRING in tow at the time. The ALDERICH went out and towed both boats into port. The fishermen have lost nets and fish. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- Eleven suits have been commenced in the United States District Court against the steamer GARLAND by parents of the children who lost their lives in the recent collision between her and the yacht MAMIE. Nine of these suits are for $2,000 damages each, and two for $4,000 each. Saturday evening James Brooks fell off a tug at South Haven and was drowned. A man named McKeon of Detroit is reported lost in the MARINE CITY disaster. He is the tenth victim. On Thursday last while Wm. L. McDougall, a submarine diver was examining the wreck of the burned MARINE CITY he discovered a body supposed to be that of a woman but so badly burned as to be unrecognizable. This makes the eleventh known victim of that disaster. Some bones were also found in the hold indi- cating that other bodies were consumed. The bones are un- doubtedly the remains of the stowaways who were said to have been the MARINE CITY. The bodies of James Crodden and B. M. Watson, who perished in the MARINE CITY disaster, were brought down to Bay City on the steamer DOVE Thursday night. The former was sent to Detroit and the latter to Port Huron for burial. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, September 16, 1880 VOL. XIV. OLD SERIES, NO. 2 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 17 NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- Wm. McLaughlin, aged 18, cook of the tug DUDLEY, was drowned at Munising last week. Proceedings have been instituted in the Ontario admiralty against the steamer GARLAND, which has been tied up at Odette & Wherry's wharf at Windsor ever since the collision with the MAMIE. The libellants are parents of the boys drowned by the collision, who claim damages for the loss of life, and the Detroit dry dock company who file a claim of $12,500 due on account of construction of the boat. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, September 23, 1880 VOL. XIV. OLD SERIES, NO. 3 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 18 LOCAL MATTERS: -------------- The DAISY DAY discharged a cargo of flour, hay and brick, the present week for Guyles & Nash. The propeller CITY OF LUDINGTON has received her boilers at Chicago and was towed back to Manitowoc, to complete her outfit, last Monday. The entire cargo of lumber has been taken out of the schooner MERCURY, blocks and tackle of the strongest kind were received Tuesday morning, and all necessary arrangements made, by which it is expected that the vessel will be taken entirely out of the water the present week. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- Friday morning about 2 o'clock five fishermen connected with Abair's fishery at Belle Isle put out in a small boat to lift a seine. It was dark and rainy at that hour, and the approach of a steam barge loaded with stone was not discovered until it was too late to get out of her course. The barge run the fishing boat down, cutting her cleanly in two, and drowning three of the five fishermen. The crew were all residents of Walkerville, and two of the three drowned were single men. They are Frenchmen, and their names are Moses Lauzon, Joseph Drouillard and Xavier Laforet. Drouillard leaves a wife and four children. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- Mrs. Oliver Jolly and her three children were drowned by the upsetting of a boat on the St. Lawrence on Wednesday. Two men and a woman were saved by clinging to the boat. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON DAILY RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, September 30, 1880 VOL. XIV. OLD SERIES, NO. 4 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 18 LOCAL MATTERS: -------------- The MERCURY is not yet entirely out of the water, but will likely be ready for repairs in a day or two. A bill for a piece of lumber, 36 feet long, was filled this week at the north mill, and shipped to Chicago on the barge MARS. The first deck load of shingles from Lyon's new shingle mill was shipped last Saturday on the schooner ANNA MARIA. Several vessels of the largest size are expected at Lyon's mill to load for Chicago. The SUNRISE will take nearly 500,000. Butters & Peters and Mr. L. M. Sweet shipped 350,000 feet of dry inch-lumber to Ogdensburg, this week, by the steam barge ABERCORN. James Quinn, a sailor on board the schooner CHALLENGE, of Ludington, fell overboard and was lost last Wednesday morning when about one and a half miles from the piers. He was taking a water cask to the leeside to be filled with water before coming into port, when a sudden lurch of the vessel caused him to lose his balance and fall overboard. A plank that was lying on the quarter deck was immediately thrown after him. There was a strong north-west breeze at the time and a heavy sea running so that the best and only thing they could do was to run in and report to one of the tugs and life saving station. The tug ALDRICH and Capt. BROWN with his crew and lifeboat immediately put out and cruised around about an hour, but could find no trace of the man. Mr. Quinn leaves a wife and three children who reside in Chicago. He was a member of the Seamen's union, and in good standing. on returning from searching for the man, the life boat was overturned by the surf near to the pier; the men succeeded in getting on board again without accident. NEWS OF THE WEEK MICHIGAN ---------------- On the 29th of August the steamer MARINE CITY was burned off Alcona, on Lake Huron, and had it not been for the prompt efforts, good seamanship and heroism of Capt. Thomas Hackett and his crew, of the tug VULCAN, Mr. E. W. Voight, of Detroit, his wife and children, and half a hundred other human beings would in all probability, have lost their lives either by drowning or being burned. In re- cognition of those services, and as a slight evidence that they are appreciated, Mr. Voight has purchased four very handsome gold watches and guards, and eight very fine silver watches and guards, and presented them to the officers and crew of the VULCAN. ===========================================================================