Show F ore e of explosion is felt a long distance ky dec 12 tle tobacco factory asre owned acy airs M II 11 pennick and operated for trust by the american snuff company was blown up by dynamite early today there was no loss of life but the dam ago to the factory was complete there was no insurance on the plant aa the insurance company had only a few days ago cancelled the policy owing to the excitement occasioned la this locality by the tactics of some of the members of the dark tobacco growers association the force of ho explosion was felt a long distance several houses in abo vicinity were damaged as were the depot and four or five passengers geri coached standing OK a siding the deed Is thought to have been committed by parties friendly to the dark tobacco grower association but the latter lias severely condemned such action A fey days aso the of the american tobacco company at this point received notice not to receive any more tobacco from people favoring ae trust but he paid no attention to it too conductor of a train on tag elkton guthorle railroad stated today that late last night as his train ws the return trip from guthorle tp elkton ho was nagged at a small station two miles with of here when the train was the engine was boarded by masked men who instantly covered tho engineer with revolvers and told him to 10 lo ther bidding ahil this artas soang on about ISO men all boarded ue train about 40 of ahem marching aroca one end to the other with drawn revolvers vol vers the leader of tho gang told the passengers rid to get excited as they were only looking for tobacco buyers atter search of the train had been made all of the men as far as pie conductor knew left the coaches and the engineer was ordered to proceed pd the train then moved an to elkton for a long ataio the dark tobacco growers association has opposed an element in its organization known as the hill billies whose depredations while night riding have caused mutch uneasiness in this district where nearly all the darlton Darl tob acab gron in the horld is brown |