Show SPARKS FROM THE WIRES In Capetown thero are persistent rumors In circulation of dissension In Iho Capo Cabinet Thn Inhabitants of Mnfnklng are now on n dally ration of two quarts of soup and two pounds of kllly A dlapiteh to Iho London Times from Dewetsdorp ditid Wednesday fays Gen Jdmdlo arrived there that morning Tho Alabama Democratic State convention conven-tion yesterday afternoon nominated Col W J Knnford for Governor and adjourned until thla morning A dltipalch from Pretoria says that Gen Dewet has Brabants Horso Isolated and has repulsed two attempts lo relievo It I capturing fifty Brltlnhert The jondon correspondent of the Associated Asso-ciated JrepR learns that there Is no foundation foun-dation whatever for tim rumor thai Km ha sador Choato will succeed Mr Hay sis 0 Secretary of Stale r Tim dplomalln representatives of the Inlted States Germany China Greece Serln ami the Netherlands woro present 1 last evening at the annual faster banquet of the Lord Mayor of London MaJ John K Howard 71 years of ape and well known In Chicago and Omaha t newspaper circlet vnn accidentally killed I In Chicago last night by falling over a banlntir ut IIH boardlnphouse KsUnliod Slates Mlnlnter A W Tor rMl now residing In Aumin Tex says t 1 entirely ngno with Gen Lew Vallaeo i In his cstlmato of the Sultan of Turkey Mr Terrell declares tho Sultan to bo an u honest man t American sculpture will havo a prominent ti promi-nent dlnpluy In time most conspicuous site ittl4 In Paris through a concession granted to John B Caldwell the American director Ut direc-tor of flno url al the Paris exposition by the French iiulliorllluH V After a morning nnd afternoon session o4J at Carnegie hall Now York Limo Ecumenical w Ecumeni-cal conference had two central inceiln rt Jc lust night one at llio Curnojlo hall and one at the Central Presbyterian church sectional services were hld In various T churches throughout tho city |