RAID AGAINST TOBACCO-GROWERS.
MASKED MEN ATTACK A KENTUCKY TOWN. FACTORIES BURNED. ESCAPE OF THE MARAUDERS. Received December 9, 10.18 p.m. NEW YORK, December 9. A tobacco war is raging between the growers and dealers at Hokinsville, Kentucky. Four hundred armed and masked men attacked the city and imprisoned all the police and firemen. They then burned several tobacco factories and fusilladed] the houses, of dealers and destroyed £40,000 worth of property. A party of pursuers exchanged shots, but the marauders, who are believed to be tobacco-growers, escaped. It is reported that the manager of the Imperial Tobacco Factory was whipped to death.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9000, 10 December 1907, Page 5
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102RAID AGAINST TOBACCO-GROWERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9000, 10 December 1907, Page 5
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