Show SHORT STORIES Another death from bubonic plaguo has occurred In Sydney N K W and two fresh cases have developed Natal dispatches recount the greatest satisfaction Is felt there at Lord Sails burys reply to lie Boer Presidents peace overtures James G Smith president of the Telegraph Tel-egraph union and an inventor of telegraphic tele-graphic devices died at his home yes terday In New York city aged 63 t Gov Po liter of Nebraska has ap pointed W So Pcpplcton H C Miller J H Peabody and W J JJroatch as Fire nnd Police Commissioners for the city of Omaha Dr Samuel Pennlngton president of the Newark City Ballonal bank and who an tho I oldest living graduate of Princeton college died yesterday at his home In Newark N J aged 91 1 Joseph Wjird of Portland Or hero he leaves a wife and two children while attempllng to board the Excelsior Excel-sior nt Vnldes on the night of February Febru-ary 23rd missed his footing fell Into the water and was drowned I New York police carried out their threat last night and arrested the pio prletors of most of the fashionable res taurants Including the proprietor of the Imperial hotel on the charge ot having music In their restaurants without with-out a concerthall license The report of RearAdmiral Hick born chief constructor of the t navy recommending rec-ommending lhat the battleships and armored cruisers already authorized be Bheathcd and coppered and the dissenting dis-senting report of the other members of the board of constructIon was sent to Congress yesterday |