Mormon Immigrants New York 3The Herald Three hundred and sixtyseven Mormon converts con-verts and twenty returning missionaries were on board the Guion steamer Wisconsin i Wis-consin when she arrived yesterday The converts come in the steerage and the missionaries in the saloon Elder L K Marlinesu who has been the Liverpool agent of the Mormon emigration society for about three years was in charge of the company The converts sere from England Scotland Wales Switzerland Germany and Scandinavia The party will start west this afternoon Elder Martineau said it is the custom in some countries to persecute us for making converts con-verts and Elder Ludwig Suhrke was arrested ar-rested in Hamburg the very day we left The officers were looking for Brother Bro-ther Hammer too but he escaped them and id with us Elder Suhrke has been preaching at Kiel and Hamburg with great zeal for two years and during that time has been 14 days in prison for making mak-ing proselytes to our faith They sentenced sen-tenced him to seven days imprisonment in Kiel once and then gave him another week because he sang hymns in prison He has a mission church with 150 members mem-bers which no persecution of the German Ger-man government can put down