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Show IDLE IRON FURNACES. The Iron Husiness so Dull That tlio Itig ritiaburg Firms Art Compelled to Shut llowil. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 14. At the Oliver Iron and Steel company's Tenth street mills all the puddling crews were suspended on account of overstock and no orders. The same company has curtailed the puddling crews at the Fifteenth street mills. About V!30 furuaoes are idle as a consequence of the depressed market. The Eagle Rolling mill, in the West End, is siuit down iu every de-partmeut, de-partmeut, and seventy. five men have been discharged. The West Vud mill ha shut down sixty-five puddling furnaces. One hundred men have been discharged at the Homestead steel works of Carnegie, Phipns i Co., during the last three weeks, and on Saturday three bundled more were discharged. |