FIGHTING A TRUST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 23 January 1907, Page 4

FIGHTING A TRUST.

.ma:-k.i;d Mt;\ mux roiuau FAL TOIIIES, Now York, Deceinlier -1. Tlmo hundred ma-ked and mount.-d men destroyed the factories of t,;.Imperial Tobacco Company iu I'rinc '- l.iii, Kentucky, early lliis'nnjrniii<r, a? a protest of Kentucky tobacco jitow crs against tho trust. The masked jii<-u. who included several well-known fanners and planters, rode into Princeton at '1 a.m. and

captured mid disarmed nil the ]>iiliiv. cut the telephone iind telegraph wires. amUthen set tire to the tobacco file tories. • The inuraudeis Conned a "dead line" around the burning buildings and re fused to allow the firemen or anvone else to approach. When the llauies were beyond enutrol the mob depait cd, firing lilies and revolvers in the air. The fire department succeeded in saving neighboring buildings, but !h.' factories and their contents were to Wily destroyed. Kentucky tobacco growers have long been agitating over i.ie question of pas-ing an anti-lrust law.