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Show RECEfVER FOR STANDARD OIL. Chicago. Wants Affairs of Company Looked Into by Courts. Chicago. George F. Harding of this city on Saturday Hied a bill In tho superior su-perior court asking for tho nppolnt-ment nppolnt-ment of a receiver for tho Stnndurd Oil company of Now Jersey and the Corn Products compnny of New Jersey. Jer-sey. Mr. Hnrdlng snys In his bill that ho Is tho ownor of 500 shares of the capital stock of tho Corn Products company, nnd that Its management Is practically controlled by tho Stnndarn Oil company. Charges nro ntado that tho Standard Oil company, with certnln Individuals, conspired to wreck tho Corn Products company, cnpltnllzed nt $S0,000.0'00, and for this purpose formed a pool, or trust, unlnwfuly regulating nnd llxlng nnd controlling the prlco of glucose, grnpo sugar atyl com starch. Harding charges thnt thirty-eight factories wero Joined lu this pool by tho so-called conspirators. |