Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — TO ELECT NEW POPE [ARTICLE]

TO ELECT NEW POPE

MEMBERS OF SACRED COLLEGE SUMMONED FOR ELECTION. _■ . ,* .-'A Officials at Vatican Hope European War Won’t Interfere With Conclave. By BRIXTON D. ALLAIRE. Rome, Aug. 21. —Despite the war In Europe. It la hoped in official circles of the Vatican, that the hostilities, gigantic as they are, will not interfere with the holding of the conclave for the election of a successor to the late Pope Pius X. The sacred college will be convened as soon as possible, and already Its members throughout the world are being summoned to Rome for the highest official function of the Roman Catholic church Interest in the successor to Pope Plus X centers In the names of Cardinal Merry del Val; Cardinal Diomede Falconia, the former papal delegate to the United States; Cardinal Ferrata, one of the most successful nuncios in the diplomatic service of the church, and Cardinal Jerome Mary Gotti, the active prefect of the propaganda. Although there is a tradition that tho pope must be an Italian, the belief was expressed todav that the conclave of cardinals might select the next sovereign pontiff from among the foreign cardinals In this connection the name of Cardinal William Van Rossum of the arch diocese of Utrecht, the Netherlands, was mentioned. The conclave, when it comes to take place, will be of peculiar interest to the United States, for it will be the first time that that country will be represented at a- papal election by thifee members of the sacred college— Cardinals John Farley of New York, James Gibbons of Baltimore, and William H O’Connell of Boston. Cardinal Farley, who is in Switzerland, has already been summoned to Rome by telegraph Germans Capture 17 Russian Ships. Rotterdam, Aug 21. Sixteen Russian sailing ships and one Russian steamer have become the spoils of the German licet in the Baltic. They were captured, accordii g to a report received here.