The Straits Open

Mackinaw, April 18.- lhe seamer Philip Armour was the first boat to pass through the straits, going down at 7 o'clock Monday morning-. Slio was closely followed by the Eg-an, City of Paris, Onoko, Lockwood. Plankinton, Ohio, Fryer, Elphicke and Fitzgerald. There is considerable drift ice, through which the boats are able to pass.