The D. Newcomb

The complainant was the owner of a barge having aboard a cargo of cinder, lying in the Allegheny river at the foot of Thirty-second street, Pittsburgh, which the steam tow-boat D. New-comb undertook to tow from that point to Braddock, on the Monongahela river. On the morning of April 21, 1882, the barge was delivered into the custody of the Newcomb, which proceeded therewith down the Allegheny river. At this time the steam-boat 0. W. Batch-elor was coming up the Ohio river to her landing on the Monongahela river at the foot of Wood street, in the port of Pittsburgh. When the Newcomb had…