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NEWS BRIEF. James H. Berry was yesterday elected U.S. Senator from Arkansas to succeed A. H. Garland. Thirty three cases of epidemic small-pox are reported by the Health Board of Mound City, Ill. The second trial of Michael McFadden, at Urbana, O., again resulted in a disagreement by the jury. Mrs. Sallie Reber Laing, of Sandusky, Ohio, a comic opera singer, died at Rutherford Park, N. J. E. Jeffords, Congressman from the Mississippi "Shoestring" district, died suddenly of heart disease. Police Inspector Thomas W. Thorne, of New York, died suddenly yesterday morning in a Broad way store. The works of the Boston Machine Manufacturing Company burned last night. Loss $175,000; insurance $120,000. The City Council of Mansheld, Ohio, has passed an ordinance imposing a license of $200 per year for skating rinks, Wm. B. Wright, real eatate and insurance agent of Shelbyville, Ind., is accused of lorgeries aggregating over $1,000. Azariah Paulin, leader and last of the Morgantown, Ohio, gang of incendarles and robbers, has been captured, convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary, The Ohio Legislature adopted a joint resolution for the submission of the constitutional amendment to change the time of the State election from October to November. The Schoharie National Bank, of Scho harie village, N. Y., has suspended. The bank officials claim the assets will exceed the deposits, and that depositors will be paid in full. John Jones, colored, employed in a barber shop at Findlay, On during the ab sence of his employer, Wednesday night, took the contents of the money-drawer and skipped out. Henry Ryan died at Canton, O., of in juries received while acting as brakeman on the Connotton Railroad. He is the fourth member of his family who has been killed by the cars. W.S Carpenter, who attempted to oommit suicide at North Lewisburg, Ohio, pleaded guilty to keeping a gambling house at Urbana, Thursday, and was fined $20,000 and costs, amounting to over $100. The building occupied by the Sisters of Charity at St. Joseph's Academy, Em. mittsburg, Md, barned yesterday. Loss $50,000; insured. No persons belonging to the institution were injured. At Ashland, O., William Boyd attempted to drive his horaes across the railway track, when they became frightened at an approaching train, throwing him down an embankment and injuring him to such an extent that his recovery is a matter of doubt. A young fellow, pretending to be a son of B. F. Avery, plow manufacturer, of Louisville, who died recently, succeeded in swindling a number of persons in the neighborhood of Lexington, Ind., and, after passing several counterfeit bills, oscaped. H. Brannon. agent of the Ashtabula Pittsburgh railroad at Lowellsville, Q., was attacked by two masked men, knocked down, thrown over an embankment and left for dead. The highwaymen then robbed the office and escaped. Detectives are in pursuit, Yesterday morning while Mrs. Jos. Heinty, of Pittshurgh, was varnishing the hearth of the dining room, the can of varniah was Ignited, and in her efforts to extinguish the flames her mother-in-law, 0 aged 60, was fatally burned. Mrs. Heints, the daughter-in-law, was fearfully burned.
