In Herrin

The little mining town of Herrin aroused the whole U. S., not many years since, with the story of a mining massacre perpetrated in the course of a strike. Intermittently since then it has been the scene of strife and of murder, until the world has begun to wonder whether Herrin will not soon be as uninhabited as the table where the hie gingham dog and the onetime calico cat sat.

Again, last week guns spat. Four bodies were carried to the undertaker's. Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who left Herrin last fall, after an affair in which six were taken to the undertakers, gave notice that he was going to return to town. According to reports. S. Glenn Young, his feud enemy, Ku Klux Klan leader in a number of dry raids, paraded the streets all one day waiting for Sheriff Thomas; with him were a dozen supporters; towards evening, Thomas met Young at the European Hotel; someone--said to be Young--opened fire. Young, Sheriff Thomas and two others were killed outright; three others went to the hospital These details of different reports varied greatly.

Young was formerly an officer of the Government who made a specialty of capturing desperate animals. He was said to have killed 20 or 30 men, was a specialist in gun play. He lived to be 44.