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Show A HERO'S MONUMENT. One of the Terrihle Incidents of the Civil War Hecalled. G. W. Humphrey of Shelby county, Mo., has just ordered a monument to be placed over the grave of Hiram Smith at Palmyra, Mo. Smith was a victim of the McNeil butchery, which occurred at Palmyra during the war, and which was one of the most brutal affairs known in history. One of General McNeil's men was missing, as the Etory goes, and he believed be-lieved that he had been foully dealt with. MnVeil ftonnnnrwl that if tho missing man was not turnea up by a certain time he would select a number of citizens from the community and put them to death. People looked upon it as an idle threat, but the time came, and McNeil did as he said he would do. Humphrey's father was one of the men selected and would have been murdered with the rest had not his friend, Hiram Smith, volunteered to take his place in the doomed column and die in his stead. Humphrey was a married man, and Smith was single, and on this account permitted himself to be shot so that his friend might be spared to his family. The children of Mr. Humphrey Hum-phrey have long intended to erect a monument mon-ument over the grave of the young hero who died to spare their father, but the matter has been put off until now. Quincy (Bis.) Cor. St. Louis Republic. |