Show A monopoly That Should Gois Enm Juno 5Ihe failure of Thomas Brown for over 300000 is ascribed to the unfair means taken by the Standard Oil Company Brown recently left their employ em-ploy and embarked in tho refining business in Erie u He drew k3 supplies from his own wells in the Clarendon and Cherry Grove regions and was taking considerable trade away from tho Standard That monopoly combatted him in every quarter with cut rates and it is alleged joined a movement in Chicago and finding him short on a long market were almost successful in mining him when friends saved him by securing an extension It is understood that he will get another extension from Erie creditors and that he will lead a grand movement in which his oil refinery will be the plant to inaugurate in-augurate a war upon the Standard Oil monopoly The rumor that Browns failuro has affected an Eric bank is not true All creditors in Erie are well secured |