Show SPARKS FROM TiE WIRE Robert M Moore began yesterday tho summing up for the defense In tho trial In New York of Albert T Patrick accused ac-cused of tho murder of W M Rice > In a dispatch from Pretoria made pub lie last night In London Lord Kitchener gives his usuoi weekly total of captures etc but docs not mention tho Schalkbur menton ger Incident Instead of sailing from Manila on board tho transport Grant aB previously announced an-nounced tho Third Infantry has cm barked on board the United States transport trans-port Thomas Murcun C Hill a Yokohama merchant who arrived at Victoria B C on tho steamer Kaga Marti Is said to bo carry ing orders to New York for arms and ammunition for the rebels In southern China In the Brooklyn pool tournament last night Charles wester of Cheyenne Wyo defeated Grant H Eby of Sprlngllcld Oi 125 to 10 nnd William Wcnrlck of New York defeated Patrick I Walsh also loC l-oC Now York 125 to OS 1 R < iVi GraiiYllIo Lowthcr president of I tho Kansas State Holiness association stated yesterday that ho believed ho would b cleared of tho charge of heresy at hlsr trial before tho Methodist Episcopal con ferenco at Arkansas City Gen Greely has Invited bids for supply lag a system of wireless telegraphy between be-tween N omo City and St Michael Alaska 10 miles distance across Norton Sound Bidders must prove tho capacity of their apparatus by sixtymile tests The outbreak of cholera In Manila does not create alarm No whltopoisons have been stricken with the disease AccordIng Accord-Ing to the reports of tho medical authorities author-ities mado up lo noon yesterday ihero have been all told twentysix cases and twentyono deaths At tho Lamb club gambol at tho Gar rick theater New York Palm Sunday was observed by tho production of the sacred drama or passion play Nazareth bi Clay M Greene Only members of the = club and chosen friends were present and the audience was composed principally of well known uctois and composers There arrived at Victoria B C ester day by the steamer Kaga Maru from tho Orient Count M Matsukata who has been twlco premier o Japan and who served a Finance Minister of the King dom for fourteen years In sin Interview ho disclaimed the report that his visit to America was In any way an official one loan or that ho had como over to float a |