The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-28
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
local AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

famous FiIibustering steamer Lau-
ro,ln 10 Go on n Route From Cali
fornia to AIasISa-A Large Fleet OF
Vessels to Arrive at This Port.
rh.re was quite a fleet of vessels arriv-
u Yesterday from Northern ports. All of
n.m report having fair weather. but a
.,ro,-son of head winds which made the
0yage tedious.
There was a heavy fog in the river and
:, Ty6ee yesterday, making it almost i'm
1o-s.be to distinguish the names of pass
fs vessels.
The schooner Morris w. Child, Capt.
Rex sixteen days from Baltimore, arriv-
a Yesterday with a cargo of OF for the
Standard Oil Company and coal for T. f.
Johnson & Co.
The schooner Ida Lawrence, Capt(
Campbell, twelve days from Baltimore,
arrived yesterday with a cargo of coal
copsigned to D. r. Thomas & Son.
Mount thirteen days from Philadelphia,
arrived yesterday with cargo of coal
consigned to the Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
The schooner Fannie Brown, Capt Lam
son thirteen days from Newport News,
arrived yesterday with cargo of pyrites.
The Norwegian bark Hera, Capt. Soren-
sen sixty-five days from Rotterdam, ar
rived Yesterday with a cargo of cement
consigned to c. NJ. Gilbert & CO.
The Italian bark Giannina, Capt. Ca
race eighteen days from Baltimore, arriv-
ed Yesterday to load with cargo of lum-
Der for Vigo, Spain.
The schooner S. NJ. Bird. from Phila-
delphia for Boston, collided off Race Point
On Thursday night with the schooner
Isaac T. Campbell, from Boston, for Will
mington. N. C. The Bird was struck on
the quarter and cut down to the waters
edge. damaging her to the extent of s., 600.
The Campbell returned to Boston for re-
pairs having lost her jibboom and head
gear
The steamship Laurada, a vessel which
has had many owners since she arrived
at Philadelphia from England as the Brit
ish steamship Empress, has been sold by
William S. Walsh of New York to the
Boston and Alaska Navigation Company
Of Maine. She will be used to carry pas
sengers and freight from the Pacific coast
to st, Michael, Alaska. While in COM
mand of Capt. Hughes she landed on the
coast of Cuba Gen. Roloff, the insurgent
minister of war, and prior to that time
took a number of similar expeditions to
the coast of Cuba, for which she is still
under bond imposed at Wilmington, Del.
The Board of Pilot Commissioners of
Delaware at their meeting Friday decided
that Pilot John Price was entitled to full
pH0tage from the British steamship
SuathgarTy, which grounded on Mifin
bar while outward from Philadelphia for
Hamburg. In the case of Pilot Rowland
against the British steamship Lumen,
which grounded last October on the New
Jersey coast the board censured the pilot
Tor Yielding against his judgment to the
master of the ship. The board claimed
had he not done so the accident would
mol nave happened. In the case of Pilot
henry Long against the steamer Wilkom-
men committee was appointed to confer
with the Board of Port Wardens of Phil
ddelphia to arrange fixed charges. Long
had been ordered to meet the ship off
bombay Hook, burt the steamer was after
ward returned to Philadelphia, and the
captain refused to pay his claims The
board passed a resolution calling upon the
HsHIhouse board to adjust the Tinicum
i1Age night 1t is claimed that the trees
d. Lincoln park obstruct the view.