The James Turpie

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The libel in this case is for salvage, filed on behalf of the North America Wrecking Company against the steamship James Turpie and a cargo of sulphur,-fruits, nuts, and other merchandise on board of her, and against the freight moneys for the carriage of said cargo. It appears from the record in the case that on October 25, 1898, the steamer James Turpie, bound from a port in Sicily to the port of New York, laden with a cargo of sulphur, fruits, nuts, and other merchandise, during a dense fog, was stranded on the Brigantine Shoals off the coast of New Jersey. The…