Daily Los Angeles Herald

The Dreadful Death of a Bride.
[Montevideo Razon.]
A horrible thing took place recently at Rio Grande del Sur, near the Uruguay-an frontier. A young farmer was bitten by a mad dog, and remedies were immediately applied to the wound. Cauterization was resorted to, and there was every reason to believe that the virus had not entered the victim's system.
When the accident occurred the young man was about to marry, but in consequence of the untoward occurrence the ceremony was postponed for three months, when the medical men who were consulted on the case gave it as their unanimous opinion that there was not the slightest ground for apprehending any danger from the bite. The marriage took place on the farm and was celebrated with the customary festivities. After the nuptial supper was over the bridegroom appeared to be seized with a fit of melancholy. One of love's caprices, said somebody. After supper came the ball, and when this was at its height the newly-wedded couple withdrew from the festive scene and retired to their apartment.
About an hour afterward the house resounded with ferocious cries intermingled with shrieks and groans. As soon as the guests recovered from their stupefaction, they started in the direction of the cries. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber. The door was burst open and a horrible spectacle presented itself. On the floor lay the young bride in a pool of blood. She still breathed, but her body was torn and bitten as if she had been seized by a tiger. In the corner of the room was the bridegroom, covered with blood and foaming at the mouth, scratching, biting and tearing away at the walls and furniture. With a sudden bound he sprang like a tiger upon the invaders of his lair, and he would have made one or more victims had not a brother of the dying bride sent a bullet crashing through the mad man's brain.