The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-03
SAW THE SMOKE.
The Crowd Knew That the Sixth
Ballot Was FruitIess.
Third Day in the Progress of
the Rapal Election.
SIGNALS WERE SEEN.
Indications That Cardinals
We're Being Tempered With.
Fifty Thousand People Gath
cred About the Vatican.

Rome, Aug. 3-6:35 P. M.@The-sixth
ballot was held this afternoon and prov
ed fruitless. The smoke announcing
that fact was seen rising from the Sis
tine chapel at 6:25 p. m.
According to reliable report from in
side the conclave, but one which it is
impossible to verify, Cardinal Herrero
Espinoza grew worse to such a point
that the last sacraments were admin
istered to him. The news leaked out
by those outside hearing through the
wicket procession and the recital of
prayers, as the communion was being
taken to the sick cardinal.
1t is stated that on the request of
Cardinal Herrero himself The vicar gen.
eral of his archdiocese of Valence,
Spain, who accompanied the cardinal to
Rome, was allowed to enter the con-
clave and visit him. The cardinal is
affected with heart disease. 1t is re-
ported that artificial respira ton is be-
ing resorted to.
THIRD DAY.
Rome, Aug. 3.-Today's first ballot for
pope has been taken and apparently
resulted in no election.
Smoke was observed issuing from the
Sistine chapel chimney al sixteen min
utes after IL o'clock this morning, it
indicating the burning of the ballots.
Though this is the third morning of
the cardinals Imprisonment, they have
not yet arrived at a decision. y In the
hope that over night some agreement
might have been arranged. the foreign
ministers, many other persona ges and
/ two or three thousand of the general
public went to st. Peters this morning
to await Developments They were
doomed to another disappointment. for
at Ills a. M. like the broken out pen
nant of a shin, the smoke announcing
/ that the Afth ballot had been fruitless,
rose from the chimney of the Sistine
cha-eI and was borne away by a light
breeze. 1t was a hqneward bound pen
nant for the crowd. which Immediately
/ left the piazza Many expressed regret
at the failure of the ballot There is q
popular feeling that this afternoons
ballot may bring the new pope, but this
does not appear to be based on any par
tlcular reason.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press visited the inside of the vatican
this morning and found that all around
the precincts of the conclave the guards
had been doubled and wherever there is
the slightest possibility of communica-
ton with the conclave the Swiss guards,
gen armes and palatine guards watch
/ ed together. The antagonism existing
/ between these bodies is the best guaran-
zee that nothing underhanded will be al
J ACNOd- 1oCSAQES lllc captains OIL the con-
claVe in their cooked hats and uniforms
EN- broidered with gold lace assisted by
the Wallets of Prince Chigi. the marshals
of the conclave in gorgeous liveries, are
constantly on the alert. The only thing
known from the inside is that the car
dinals rose early today and individually
celebrated mass in the Pauline chapel.
They took breakfast at o'clock, going
shortly after to the Sistine chapel, where
they remained until about IL 80 a. M
The piazza of Stethers this morning
bore the usual appearance of these past
days. italian soldiers occupied two col
onnades and stood about in groups vain
ly trying to keep in the shade, the sun
being scorching this morning new
note to the scene was given by a cara
van of peasants from the surrounding
provinces, composed of men. women and
children in costume, who have evidently
come to Rome for the pOpe's blessing.
The women wore bright red skirts, white
/ bodices with colored corsets outside
/ spotless white handkerchiefs on their
heads, and sandals laced with leather
thongs to the knee. The men were less
! gorgeous in velvet knee breeches with
gold buttons. The group camped in the
shadow of the obelisk eating watermelon
and making so brilliant a picture that
all on the piazza, especially the foreign
ers, feasted their eyes on the character
fStic scene.