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Show CHURCH PEOPLE IN A NEAR RIOT Schenectady. N. Y.. Jan 25. The factional wai In the First Congregational Congrega-tional church, headed by Mayor Geo R. Lunn, and its opponents, nearlv resulted In blows last night when the mayor, as pastor of the church, ordered order-ed two patrolmen to eject Former Deputy City Comptroller Horace W. Raymond and two others of the anli-Lunn anli-Lunn taction from the church property. proper-ty. The men had been sationed at the church all dav to prevent the changing chang-ing of the locks by the Socialists so as to bar the antl-Luuu faction from holding its regular Sunday night serv- B Ice, the Lunn following holding serv- flK ices in a local theater. It was learn- SB od subsequently to the ejection that the patrolmen had no warrant, nor B had the churchmen committed any E3 crime or offense which might permit jHB of such extreme action |