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Show PETERS PEP'-H FOR PIUS. Pope Receives Several Mexican Fami- lies From YucataiL: Rome, Aug. 18. The pope today received; re-ceived; .several, Mexican families from I the diocese of Yucatan, to whom he j spoke about their bishop, the Rt. Rev. I Martin Fritchler -y Cordova. Then the i Mexican consul here preserfted the pontiff -with an offering ' of Peter's pence from the diocese of Aguas Cali-entes, Cali-entes, the pope remarking that since his election the new world had given the largest amounts and had furnished the mcst numerous contingents of the faithful he had seen, alluding to th American pilgrimage, which he re- ! ceived the day after his -election. |