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Show IS -THE HARVESTER TRUST DEAD? A Story that Its Reported Collapse Waa Marely a Blind." Springfield, 0 Jan. 21. A queer story is going the rounds of the Ohio papers to the effect that the harvester trust still exists secretly, and that the announcement that it had been abandoned aban-doned on account of legal obstacles was merely a blind. So much hostility was stirred up against tho trust aimug farmers that various reaper companies were alarmed and saw that this hostil-its hostil-its world seriously interfere their business. busi-ness. J. F. MeGrew, gon-in-law of Gen. A. S. Bushnell, one of the directors of the late harvester trust, is quoted as saying that he would not attempt to deny that such an organization existed. Mr. MeGrew said be could see no reason why the farmers should oppose the combination, as he believed it would be to their benefit. He also said that a close combination would be formed or else the harvester men would tight each other harder than they ever did before. The rumor is denied here and manufacturers scout the idea that tho trust still exists. Still it is considered consid-ered strange that the firms who formed the trust did not tind the legal obstacles obsta-cles in the way -before going into the trust, as all of tnnm employed eminent counsel before making the move. |