TOBACCO WAR IN AMERICA
BETWEEN GROWERS AND DEALERS. PLUNDER AND OUTRAGE BY 400 MASKED MEN. GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. REPORT OF A MANAGER’S CRUEL DEATH. United Press Association—Copyright (Received 10.18 p.m., Dec 9.) NEW YORK, Dec. 9. A tobacco war is. raging between the growers and dealers at Hobsonville, Kentucky,
Four hundred armed masked men attacked the city, imprisoned all police and firemen, burned several tobacco factories, 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, es-'; caped. It is reported that the manager of the Imperial Tobacco Factory was whipped to death.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 10 December 1907, Page 2
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110TOBACCO WAR IN AMERICA Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 10 December 1907, Page 2
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