People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — More Rumors of the Irene Affair. [ARTICLE]

More Rumors of the Irene Affair.

Tampa, Fla., March 20.—Rumors were brought by the steamer Mascotte yesterday that at Key West it is reported an American schooner named Jessamine or Irene was fired into by a Spanish gunboat off the north coast of Cuba and sunk and dismasted. Another report says the schooner Irene of Key West was dismasted by the gunboat Infanta Isabel four days ago while the Irene was on its way to Cuba for fruit and that it drifted ashore near Punta Rassa or Punta Gorda. It is reported that its captain has telegraphed the facts to the state department.