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Show I WARSHIP SENT TO GUADALOUPE City In French Weit Indies In Hands of a Mob. j Washington. Guadnloupo, French West Indies, Is under mob rule, nc-' nc-' cording to a dispatch received at tho Btato department from J. Jarvls Dow-ens, Dow-ens, tho American consul nt that point. His dispatch snys the mob Is In con trol and tho authorities nro unnblo to restrain It. Election trouble nro. tho cause of tho disturbances. For several sev-eral weeks there has been rioting, which Is supposed to havo conic to a head Monday, which was election day. Whllo thoro aro fow Americans at tho I place, largo quantities of American goods nro stored thoro. x William H. Sutherland, tho senior officer In commnnd of tho Hoot nt San Domingo, hns been ordered to send a ' warship Immediately to Guadaloupo to protect American Interests. |