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has started up its immense plant again. The Sawyer Woolen Mills, of Dover, N.H., has resumed operations on half time. The Carbon steel works at Pittsburg has put on a double crew of operatives. The Hamilton Mills, at Amesbury, Mass., have resumed after a week's suspension. The iron sheet mill of Morehead, McCleane & Co., Pittsburg, has resumed work. Five thousand men have been re employed at the coke ovens of Connellsville, Pa. The car-shops at Reading, Pa., have increased its labor days to six instead of five a week. The Whitely mallable iron works, with 200 men, started up at Springfield, III., this week. The Tamaqua Knitting Mills at Tamaqua, Pa., have resumed operations, with a full force. At Fall river, Massachusetts, 23 of the 67 mills have resumed, but at a reduced scale of wages. The Curtis collar manufactory at Troy, N. Y.. has resumed, giving employment to 400 operators. Sixteen additional furnaces were put in operation at the National Tube Works, Pittsburg, this week. The Carnegie steel works, at Duquesne, have resumed work, giving employment to 2,000 workmen. The Gonic Woolen Mills, at West Rochester, N. H., started up Monday after a few weeks' shut down. The Cocheco Manufacturing Co., of West Rochester, has resumed business, with a slight reduction of wages. The boot and shoe factory at Fairbault., Minn., has resumed with a full force and a big list of orders to fill. The Fashion Knitting Mill, of Cohoes, N. Y., employing 100 persons, has resumed work after a shut-down. The canning works at Fairbault, Minnesota, have resumed and are now putting up 20,000 cans of sweet corn a day. The Watson Paper Co., at Erie, Pa., which has been running half time, started up this week full time and with full force. Holmes & Ide, of Troy, N. Y., one of the largest firms in the collar business, have set their factory running on full time. Wallace & Sons' brass factory, of Ansonia, Mass., has resumed with twothirds its complement of men at reduced wages. The Adelaide Silk Mill at Allentown, Pa., which has been running on half time, now runs on full time, with 50 employes. The Iowa Barbed Wire Works, of Allentown, Pa., which has been idle four weeks, has resumed work with 140 operatives. The Orkney and the Hames knitting mills, of Cohoes, N. Y., employing 100 and 200 hands respectively have resumed work. The Diamond knitting mill, at Waterford, N. Y., and the collar factory of the same city, have resumed operations with a full force. The Pawtuxet Print Works, of Pawtuxet Valley, R. I., have put on a full force, and there is not an idle operative in Clyde, Phenix or Nantic. The Goodcharles Nail Works and the City Nail Works, both of Milton, Pa., employing 380 men, have resumed, the former on full and the latter on two-thirds time. For the first time since January, every department of Jones & Laughlin's American iron works, at Pitts. burgh, is in full operation, giving employment to 3,500 men. Of the 154 suspended National banks up to date 61 have resumed, 58 are in the hands of receivers, 34 in the hands of examiners, and one has gone into voluntary liquidation. The New York and Pennsylvania Paper Co., of Lock Haven, Pa., employing 180 men, after & month's suspension, has resumed work with a full force and without reduction of wages. The following national banks resumed business last Monday: The First National bank, of Provo, Utah; the Western National bank, of South Pueblo, Col.; the First National bank, of Nashville, Tenn.; the First National bank, of Lemars, Ia. The Schenectady branch of the Edison General Electrical Company, which also includes the ThompsonHouston Co., of Lynn, Mass., which has been for several months running a reduced force, has increased its number of operatives to the maximum number. Rays of sunshine may be seen through a rift in the cloud that over. hangs a large portion of Europe. Secretary Morton's dispatches confirm a shortage of crops, which guarantees a
