The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-12-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

URUGUAY LOVE TRAGEDY. South American papers give full particulars of an extraordinary case of attempted murder and suicide in Buenos Ayres. It appears a handsome girl of 17 years, and of well-to-do parents in that city, against their expressed wish had a liaison with an Italian, named Adolfo Gotuzzo, a married man, with several children. The time cazne when the result of these relations could no longer be hidden, and the distracted girl asked Uotuzzo to kill her. After a good deal of hesitation he determined to shoot her, and then to destroy himself. The two people met in a summer-house, where they intended to carry out their desperate resolution. Gotuzzo made one more effort to dissuade the girl, but failed. Then he nerved himself for his frightful task. After firing two shots with a revolver at the girl he discharged the weapon three times acainst himself. Fortunately the forzner's wounds were not fatal, but she clung with almost incredible tenacity to her plan of putting an end to Mr life. A well is situated at a few yards from the summer-house, and she sung herself blindly into it. This well, it seems, was all but dry, and the girl escaped from death once more. Maddened by her double failure, she seized the rope hanging from the top, and managed to reach the mouth of the well. Then she ran about shrieking that a man had shot her, and that she threw herself into the well to get free from him Her cries brought to the spot a number of people. among whom was the local medical officer, who ordered her to be taken home at once. Meanwhile Gotuzzo was transferred to a hospital, where he will have to remain for a considerable time. In his pockets were found the addresses of 44 persons whom he had wished to attend his funeral, and several farewell letters to friends. He has serious wounds oz the mouth, is, the left and in the chest.  Dr. Steinitz bas won the nth game at St. Petersburg M the contest with Dr. Lasker for the chess championship.  At a banquet given by the King of Denmark to Prince and Princess Carl at Copenhagen on Sunday night, the aged Sovereign made a touching little speech On Sunday a young woman named Caines, living with her parents at Poole, had some tinned salmon for supper. filie retired to bed in her usual health. Fully on Mondaymoming she was found by her father dead. A doctor who was called in expressed the ,pinion that death was due to an irritant poison, ..obably the salmon.  At Barnsley, Alfred Ball was charged with highway robbery with violence. The offence was committed in September, when George Sheldon was knocked down, it is alleged, by prisoner and a man named Robinson, and robbed. Robinson has already been sentenced to a term of imprisonment and the cat, and Ball was remanded.  James Walsh, of Birmingham, was charged, at Wednesbury, with seriously wounding Thomas Frederick Read. On Christmas Eve the two men quarrelled, and blows were resorted to. Prisoner, seizing a hammer, dealt prosecutor a violent blow on the head, inflicting very serious injuries. Remanded  News has reached Cardiff that the Admiralty had placed a contract for 200,000 tons of the best Welsh steam coal with a syndicate of local colliery proprietors. It is stated that the contract price is unusually high. rhe muzzling order is to be revoked in the metropolitan district of Est•ex if no fresh cases of rabies occur there before February 22nd next. No fewer than 5,896 dogs have beer. slaughtered since the order came into force.  A mob at Owensboro,' in Kentucky, has broken into the gaol, and taking out a ilegro murderer hanged him. This makes the sixth case of lynching in Kentucky within six days, and lawlessness, as personified in acts of this kind, is rapidly increasing. A disastrous fire which destroyed, within three hours, four large ;hops, three storeys high, occurred early on Sunday morning at Pentre, Rhondda Valley. Messrs. Thomas (drapers), Wise and Jones (shoe merchants), and Down (toy vendor), who occupied the premises, were aroused by a police officer, and the buildings were soon completely gutted, together with a large section of an adjoining hotel. Damage was done to the amount of £15,000. No lives were lost. A farmer, named John Wilson, was killed on Christmas Day by a train on the Belfast and Northern Countiggßailway, near Limavady. Deceased's body was hoffibly mutilated, the legs, arms, and hands being found scattered al) over the line, and some distance away from the body.  Prisoner: "Forty shillings for stealing a pair of shoes?" Magistrate: "That's what I said." "Why, your worship, they didn't tit."  Mrs. Featherweight (to cabman): "You are sure von won't run away with me?" Cabby "No, mum; I've been married these 20 years." Stylus : "I understand Versifer has become quite a poet." Buckram: "Something like that. No one can understand the stuff he writes." 'When at man declahs he (loan' regret nuflin' he ebber done," said Uncle Eben, "he's either gut er mighty good conscience er none at all."