HERRIN, a coal-mining city of Williamson county, Ill., U.S.A., 9om. S.E. of Saint Louis, served by the Burlington, the Illinois Central and the Missouri Pacific railways. The population in 192o was 10,986; 193o it was 9,708. There are 36 coal mines in the immediate vicinity, and the county mined over 8,000,000 tons in 1926. Such manufactures as the city has are subsidiary to the mining industry. Herrin has had its part in the feuds and disturbances which have given the county the sobriquet "Bloody Williamson." In June, 1922, local hostility to a new mining company, attempting to operate on a non-union basis, was accompanied by violence on both sides, and culminated in "the Herrin Massacre," when some 25 of the outsiders were killed.