TOBACCO WAR.
BEEIOUS CONFLICT BETWEEN ' GROWERS AND DEALERS. A TOWN HELD UP.
Received December 9, 10.18 p.m. New York, December 9.
A tobacco war Is raging between the growers and dealers at Hokingsvillc, Kentucky. Four hundred armed masked men attacked the city, imprisoned all the police and firemen, and burned several tobacco factories.
They fusilladed the houses of dealers, and destroyed £40,000 worth of property. A party of pursuers exchanged shots with them, but the marauders, who are believed to be tobacco growers, escaped. It is reported that the manager of the Imperial Tobacco factory wis whipped to death.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 10 December 1907, Page 3
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99TOBACCO WAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 10 December 1907, Page 3
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