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Show ELECTION RIOTS. Five Men and Three Women Killed in Guadalupe. Basse Terre, Guadalupe. Five men and three women were killed and at least twenty-five other persons were wounded, six of whom will die, during rioting at the elections. Of the dead, one a woman 70 years old was shot behind the closed doors of her home, which stands opposite the town hall. It is supposed that many others injured fled to the woods. The rioting occurred in the Petit Rourg district of this city, the capi tal. The trouble began through the f jec tion from the town hall of the representative repre-sentative of the rad.cal party at the moment the vo:ing ceased and the inspection in-spection of the ballots was to begin. The radicals attempted to force art sntrance and assaulted the twtlve gendarmes who store in their way. The gendarmes fired a volley indiscriminately indis-criminately into the crowd. |