The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-10
STARTING UP BY SCORES.
Here's a Long List of assumptions
Due to SiIver's Setback.

Due to Silver's Setback.
Decatur, ILL.,, Nov. 9-The following
firms have resumed work, after being idle
for the past year:
Chambers, Bearing & Quinlan, employ
ers etc.
F. B. TAFT & Co., 100 employees, manu-
facturers of corn planters and farming
implements.
Decatur Furniture Company, 100 men,
furniture.
Wabash railway shops, 800 men.
All of these places have been shut down
entirely. or working half time, for the
past year.
Detroit, Mich, Nov. 9.-The Michigan
works of the Michigan-Peninsular Car
Company started work this morning and
400 men were set to work on repairs. The
| Peninsular shop has been running for some
time with a reduced force.
| Cleveland, O., Nov 81. c. Morehead,
general superintendent of the Erie rail-
road, to-day issued an order which will
affect, for the better several thousand
men. The order calls for longer hours and
| increased pay and men.
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daysburg Iron and Nail Company. and the
Eleanor Iron Company of this city and the
Portage Iron Company of Duncansville
and the Altoona Iron Company of Allie
gheny resumed operations in all depart
ments to-day.
The Pittsburg Limestone Company,
chiefly controlled by Andrew Carnegie,
has leased extensive lands at Canister,
near here, and viii double the output of
it's quarries in this county.
Des Moines, Ia, Nov. 9.-The Des
Moines Packing Company opened its
packing house to-day after a long perlod
during which it was shut down on account
of hard. times 1t employs $50 men.
The Des Moines Knitting Works has
put on day and night forces. doubling its
capacity and employing Is men.
| The Des Moines wooden mills has also
doubled it's forces and will employ I5c
\ hands.
The Rock Island road has ordered nine
hours work daily in all its shops in Iowa,
the first time in a year.
| G. Van Ginkle to-day entered into q
contract to erect a four-story block as
warehouse for the William Deering Har-
vest Company, which will open general
agency here.
The Keokuk and Western road on Sat-
urday closed the deal for placing the bonds
| to raise money to extend its line from
Evansville, Mo, into Kansas City.
| Sedalia, Mo-, Nov, 9.-After working
one-half time and one-half force
| for several months past, the
Missouri Pacific shops to-day put
| full force of men, 800 in number, to work
on full time.
Piqua, O., Nov. 9.-The corrugating
works, rolling mill, Snyder bent wood
works and the Orr linseed mill started to-
| day, giving employment to 500 men,
| Laporte, Ind, Nov. 9-The Porter Brick
yards, located at Chesterly, which have
been idle six months, resumed operations
! this morning One thousand five hundred
men have returned to work. The syndi-
| cate operating the Porter yards control
J immense brick-malSing Industries in ohio,
I Michigan and Illinois, and the resumption
| of work furnishes employment to over
| 5000 men.
Bellefonte, Pa, Nov. 9.-The Bellefonte
glass plant, which has been idle the past
five years, is TO be blown in. All arrange
ments are complete for starting one fur
mace of six pots and repairs will at once
be made to begin operations by Nov. 20.
Johnstown, Pa, Nov. Sit was author
itatively stated to-day that the great Cam
bria steel mills, which have been closed
down for some time, will resume work the
latter part of the week. giving employment
to a large force of men, The company
hopes to put the blooming and billet mill
| in operation about the same time.
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