Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-01 | Page 2 | A Masked Mob Burns Stemmeries

A MASKED MOB BURNS Three Hundred Men Enter Town Of Princeton Ky After Mid Midnight Midnight night and BegIn Work PROCEED IN METHODICAL WAY alit II IRr IIII anni cit Xu One to 1 gy D Dec c 1 special Princeton I ly y says 1011 the tobacco or of John I nd John U 0 Ocr Orr the tho hatter luller controlled 1 by the Tobacco or of NUll New York were destroyed early tolla today by a tire kindled by II a mob ot of 1111 The lUll lass is IR at The mob which men mell entered between 1 I 3 2 the tho night town III and dla armed They then thell wont went to 10 the foolery soul Quickly applied the torch I masked mon stood on guard gourd per permitting nobody tu to conic como near until thi th were completely enveloped III mind hll was In useless R AI A ut of the mob took charge eha ge or of the tide phone tutu no word ot of the was permitted tu to go ou out I WIlIn the mob saw that the tho tine nta 1 beyond control they left time tho town go lag In the ot of revolvers and rifles Il as th they departed When the tho Ore arrived It could do nothing lore thal than the fire d destroying build In the vicinity The steni Itry leery WIH was located ott on the Ihn south side Ido of town lown on the Illinois Central railroad and the Ocr Orr building In the northern hart ot of time the toI town The Tho Steger factory I is by the tho Snuff Ind anti Mr Steger Heger II is the Princeton agent for tor that concern Nc Orr Is the tire ot of the Company 18 about l pounds of tobacco II hi each and all or of It sas burned a The In III additon addition to dl the policeman took look of at Ib the p l e staton statIon anti the Even ven had the lre lire responded the have been boen unable ta obtain a a ot of w water TM ThO work of oC the mob is 19 believed to be only 1 a further Alce amice or of the agitation by the tobacco against the thic tobacco tru truit Tho me ot of farmers Is lS its Growers Grower but It Is in lol not known knowlI that Any r ot of that was In last nights IMI mob