The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-08-06
rs NOT YET CHOSEN.
Second Day Of the conelave Is Fruit
less of Results.

less OF Results.
Rome, Aug. 4.--No successor to Lee
XIII. has yet been chosen. From the
smoke which issued from the little
chimney on the Sistine chapel last
night a vast multitude gathered
around st. Peters learned that the
second day of the conclave had been
fruitless. The conclusion is drawn that
the strength of the leading candidate
remains unbroken and that no com
promise candidate has yet appeared.
And there is no indication of how long
this condition of affairs will continue,
The prolongation of the contest has
aroused tremendous public interest, II,
indeed, il cannot be called excitement.
Every trace of that apathy which fol-
lowed the death of the late pope has
banished, and instead there now eX'
lists a burning interest in everything
pertaining to the election Of his sue.
cessor. Last night this eliminated in
the appearance of a great crowd which
packed the square of St Peters and
presented a spectacle seldom seen
even at the site Of so many historic
ceremonies. The impenetrable sc.
clusion which shrouds those engaged
in determining who shall be at the
head of the Catholic church heightens
the
FeVerish Curiosity
Of those who await the decision.
Princes, Processes, archbishops, bish.
ops, monsignors, priests, well-todo
business people, in short, people from
every walk in life from that of noble.
man to street beggar, talk of nothing
but la fumata (the smoke from the
morning and last evening this was the
lodestone that drew tens of thousands
to the square of st. Peters.
After the fruitless morning ballot a
belief spread that a new pontiff would
surely be elected last evening. All
roads during the afternoon, therefore,
led to the Vatican. Carriages and We.
hicles of every description ratified into
the piazza of ST Peters. The regular
Sunday leisure was forgotten in the
anxiety to see the new occupant of the
holy see. The streets converging into
ST. Peters were black with the thou-
sands who entered the square with the
ceaseless regularity of an incoming
tide By 6 O'Clock IL was estimated
that $4,000 people occupied the vast
amphitheater Suddenly, exactly at
$40 p. m, sharp cry arose, "ecce,
ecce." Instantly the cry was taken
up by
Fifty Thousand Threats,
and grew and grew until the immense
piazza fairly poared with "ecce, ecce;
la fumata"
Then silence fell like a spell while
the thousands watched from the tin
smokestack of the Sistine chapel a
tiny stream of light gray smoke curl
lazily downward. With no wind to
carry it away the smoke hung heavily
in the hot air and then gradually dis.
appeared.
For moment the crowd believed
that the signal meant an election, for
there is a tradition that the cardinals
are allowed TO send up little smoke
as notification of an election and
much smoke in the case of a disagree
ment. Any such hopes, however, were
almost Immediately dissipated when
cloud of very thick smoke emerged
and continued for FIVE minutes.
With many CALCULATIONS of disap.
pointment the populace watched the
last trace of the ballots disappear and
then dispersed, although it was long
time before the square of the basilica
resumed its normal quiet appearance.
Last nights failure to achieve an cleo.
ton was a great disappointment &c
Rome, and it is doubtful whether such
an immense crowd will again assemble
unless the conclare should continue