A TOBACCO WAR.
A DETERMINED ATTACK.
FACTORIES DESTROYED. BY ' FIRE
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
Received 10.18 p.m., December 9i:h . NEW YORK Dec. 9
A tobacco war is raging between the gT.owe.i3 and dealers of Hokihsville, Kentucky.
Four hundred armed and masked men attacked the colony and imprisoned all the police and firemen*, burned several of the tobacco factories, fusilladed ,the -house..; of the dealers', and destroyed £50,000 worth of property. A party of pursuers exchanged shots but the marauders who are believed to be to-bacco-growers escaped. ' It is reported t'halfc the manager of the Imperial Tobacco. Company was whipped to death. * ... ■
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13464, 10 December 1907, Page 5
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100A TOBACCO WAR. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13464, 10 December 1907, Page 5
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