HERRIN

a city of Illinois, in Williams on co. It is on the Burlington and Quincy, the Illinois Central and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. It is the center of an important coal mining region and its industries include machine shops, foundries and a powder plant. In 1922 riots between striking miners and strike breakers resulted in the killing of 50 non-union miners after they had surrendered their arms. The leaders of the mob were 4ndicted and tried in 1923. The result of the trials was acquittal. BERRING FAMILY (Clupeidoe), the most valuable of all grovns of fishes, on account of their importance as food fishes. They are marine and surface feeders and are taken in drift nets. Most are small fishes, with large, thin, silvery scales and without a lateral line, but the related Mexican Silver-King, or Tarpon, a favourite game-fish, may reach a length of 6 feet. The Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is one of the most valuable of Amer. fishes. Its young are preserved as ‘sardines.’ The egg of the herring is one of the few fish eggs that do not float. The smaller Sprat (c. sprattus), with serrated belly, the young of which, with those of the herring, are known as ‘Whitebait’; the silver rae young of which are Sardines; the Shad, which may weight 8 lb., and spawns, like the Salmon, in rivers; and the Anchovy.