Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-08-03
SMOKE SIGNALS AIS;
From Chimney OF Sistine Chapel
That No Successor to Leo
XIII Has Been Chosen.
PUFF C INTEREST INCREASING
Cardinal Herrero Still Confined to Bed.
Prisoners in conclave Fare Well.
Provisions Examined for contraband
Matter-Suspicious Lights Seen.

Neutrality-suspicious. Lights Seen.
Rome. Aug 3.-No successor to Leo
XIII has yet been chosen. From the
smoke which issued from the little
chimney on the sistine chapel vast
multitude gathered around ST. Peters
learned that the second day of the
eonclave had been fruitless The con.
clusion is drawn that the strength of
the leading candidate remains I'M
broken and that no compromise candi-
date has yet appeared And there is
no indication of how long this cond..
ton of affairs will continue The pro.
longation Of the contest has aroused
tremendous public interest, if indeed
1t cannot be called excitement. Every
trace of that apathy which followed
the death of the late pope has van
ished and instead there now exists
burning interest in everything pertain.
Ing to the election of his successor.
Many Rumors Afloat.
There are thousands of rumors and
unverified statements afioat as to
what happened in the conclave Sun
day, but the only thing which seems
to be reliably known is that the entire
sacred college assisted at a mass
which was conducted by Father Pal
mieri, their confessor, and that the
Veni Creator was sung.
A great quantity of provisions was
sent into the conclaye through the
wicket gate, including 300 chickens,
800 newly-laid eggs, many liters of
milk, crat% of fruit, ETC. All the pro-
visions were thoroughly examined be.
fore being allowed to pass through
the wicket. Forty of the chickens
were cut open to see that they did not
contain contraband matter.
Letters and kilograms for the car
dinals were sent into the camerlingo,
who does as he thinks best about de.
livering them. Some of the Catholic
newspapers were also sent in, but no
non-clerical papers.
kilograms for Sick Cardinals.
The number of kilograms for Car
dinals Herrero Espinosa and Lang
enieux, who are i'll, was so great that
they made a large packet.
The Spanish students who are par
ticularly anxious about the condition
OF Cardinal Herrera asked DIR. Lap
POM through the wicket how he was
and the doctor replied that he was 4
little better, but still confined to his
bed and that the condition of Cardinal
Creoni was unchanged. It is under.
stood that the latter did not wish to
participate in the conclave, but was
almost forced to do So He is now
hlled with doubts as to whether he
should give vote, being afflicted with
sort OF mania that he is unworthy to
interpret the divine will by casting
his vote for anyone.
Cardinal Gotti, as far as known. is
the only one OF the cardinals who has
not made some complaint about his
cell, Being monk he would consider
demands for comfort against his ideas
OF austerity. To a member of the
roble guard who wished him success,
Cardinal Gotti merely replied: THANK
You, but shall not be made pope"
Marshal VIII Receive News EarIv.
Prince Chigi, the marshal of the
conclave, Is rather disconnected be-
cause he has no electrical contriyance
by which he can be notified from with.
In the conclave the moment a new
pope Is selected He communicated
with Monsignor Merry del Val on the
subject and the latter informed him
That measures would be taken to no.
tify the marshal instantly when a de.
eision was reached.
Several attempts to establish CON-
nunication with the conclave have
been discovered in time and there
have been some suspicious lights wav.
ing in the cells of several of the cardi-
nails which were interpreted as sig.
nails. These We're Immediately report.
ed to the camerlingo by the marshal
and extra precautions were provided
to prevent repetition of the occur.
renee. Conventional signs for commu-
nication, codes. etc, have all failed up
to the present time.