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CRIMINAL NEWS. Captain Edgar B. Macklin of Company C, Twenty-fifth United States infantry, was shot twice and dangerously wounded at El Reno, Okla., by a negro and belief is expressed there that it was one of the members of the troop discharged by President Roosevelt for participation in the Brownsville (Tex.) riots. A desperate effort was made at Chicago to assassinate Judge Charles S. Cutting of the probate court by Frank F. Ellerbrock of that city. The would. be assassin is believed to be insane. Judge Cutting escaped injury by a hair's breadth and overpowered his assailant after a fierce fight. Cashier J. B. F. Rinehart of the suspended Farmers and Drovers' bank of Waynesburg, Pa., has been arrested charged with making false reports to the comptroller of the currency. The bank examiner in charge reports an alleged discrepancy of $950,000 in the accounts of the institution. A mob numbering twenty-five or thirty men broke down the door of the Annapolis (Md.) jail, took out Henry Davis, the negro who on last Friday criminally assaulted Mrs. John Reid (white) near Igleharts Station, and lynched him. Davis confessed his guilt. Governor Higgins of New York has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death under which Albert T. Patrick has remained nearly five years, since his conviction of the murder of William Marsh Rice, the aged Texas millionaire, in New York city. The execution at Houston, Mo., of Joda Hamilton, the twenty-year-old farmer boy, for the murder of five members of the family of Barney Parsons, a farmer, was a horrible affair. Two attempts were necessary before the hanging proved successful. The jury in the case of Henry Suss. man, on trial at Minneapolis for the murder of his wife in the Glenwood hotel on Sept. 26, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree. Sussman was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Four officials of the Nebraska Land and Feeding company have been convicted at Omaha on thirty-six counts of an indictment charging conspiracy to defraud the government of public lands and subornation of perjury. Charles D. Faber, city paving in spector and ex-mayor of Montgomery, Ala., was shot by his assistant and former chief city detective, W. H. Murphy. Faber's wounds are probably fatal. The Bank of Horatio, Ark., has been looted by two robbers, who entered the bank, covered the cashier with their pistols and appropriated all the money in sight, about $4,000. Robert Gordon, fifteen years old, was sentenced at Chicago to the re.
