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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1908
Page
9
The article documents the American Society of Equity’s rise, claims of market manipulation in tobacco pooling, harsh warehouse charges, night rider violence, and financial schemes that allegedly trapped farmers with inflated costs and false price promises across Kentucky and neighboring states. It cites figures on hogshead pooling, prices, and losses, and notes a Kentucky murder tied to night rider intimidation.
Story recounts the 1906 hogshead tobacco sale, night rider violence, and murder of Hiram Hedges as told by his son. It notes mob opposition, family scenes, and appeals for contributions. endorses Equity Trust as a major force, contrasting it with other trusts.
In Kentucky Burley districts a movement asks raising the 1907 crop pool price to twenty five cents per pound. Nicholas County first pushed the idea at Carlisle, urging an increase from the current fifteen cents. Members of the Burley Tobacco Society are generally favorable, but the Executive Committee has not yet ruled.
Paducah Ky August 1 Exiled by night riders and cut off from family a man hides in Paducah to escape Lyon County night riders who bound him and weighed him with injuries while his mother and father and wife and children mourn.
A 1908 Nicholas County tragedy left Hiram Hedges dead and his wife gone, two boys and others left to bear the burden of a mortgage on a small farm. A local appeal asks readers to donate to the Hedges fund, with contributions to be published in Carlisle papers. Funds will be handed to trusted local banks and editors in Carlisle for distribution to the family.
A group of armed men attacked a Bates farm near Morgantown Kentucky. An eight year old child of Charles Bates was slightly wounded by gunfire. Bates recovered a watch one rider lost during the fracas.
Mayfield Kentucky August 1 Thomas Olloway a leading tobacco grower near Lebanon Church south of town discovers a letter switches matches and rope at his mailbox. He is not a member of the local tobacco association.
In Frankfort on August 1 Governor Willson and Adjutant General Johnston deemed the arson of Illinois Central Railroad depots at Otter Pond Cerulean Springs and Gracey the first in a possible wave of night rider actions in Kentucky's dark tobacco district. Lyon County is reported to be serious.
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