Show A abuses ike catholic church tae HE THE 1 folit taws and the catholin Cal holin an haild trici a hob fills the and aft is service J KANSAS cm nov 1 adjutant general hoerth 0 kansas received informal ion today to day of a religious war at axtell marshall county and a request or atie immediato presence of troops he left this afternoon fur the prene of the trouble after ordering alie company at marksville marysville Marys ville to hold it for koniers the message from the mayor of axtell and stated that on list saturday eight a metho diet reah alist named johnann arrived at axtell and started to preach a ber inon denunciatory of lie catholics foar members of that church siezer him after bad denounced him as a liar and threw him through a window the alev bir johnann had the four men arrested and announced that be would continue his sermon yesterday morning when he appeared at the methodist church last night a large crowd had gathered among them many catholics soon after beginning bis remarks alie cr made an attack on lie catholic church he became so abusive that one of alie catholics present called him a liar he con ainu d liis abusive remarks and finally tour of the catholics present rushed to the pulpit and taking the preacher by the collar threw him down in a moment the pulpit was surrounded by an angry mob and a general melee ensued although the catholics were in the minority they were too much for hie methodists and succeeded in throwing the preacher and two elders out of alie house the whole town was boon aroused the four catholics ft ere arrested and ant in the city prison this so enraged the catholic population that they organized this morning to rescue their imprisoned associates the town of st bridget a few miles distant is settled entirely by catholics and it is reported that the whole town is organizing to go to the rescue of the axtell catholics the mayor says he is powerless to control the mob and fears a conflict between the two elements |