The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-05
INFECTED MONEY
Ruins u WOman's Eyesight-An Elk
traOrdinary Amictfon.

infection, conveyed by a tainted one
dollar United States treasury note. has
caused Brooklyn woman to lose the
sight of one eye entirely and she may
become totally blind. Mrs. Joseph
.Cople, Of No. rs Forty-first street, 10
the sufferer. It will be three weeks
next Tuesday since she was first af-
f1icted. On that day her eyelids be-
came red with Inflammation and a
hlm gathered on the pupils Of the eyes.
She also experienced shooting pains
In her forehead and brain. Fearing
cold had settled in her eyes and head
and caused the attendant inf1am-
nation. she attempted to treat herself.
but nome remedies and applications of
hot cloths STEPPED In rose water afford
ed her no relief; in fact, they only
seemed to intensity the pain and ag-
gravate the trouble.
At the end of the third day Mrs.
Copies eyes had swollen to such size
that they bulged from their sockets
and she was unable to see. The eye
balls became blood red and the eyes
themselves almost attained the dimen-
sions and appearance of Baldwin -ap-
pies. Sleep was an impoSSibility. and
in her agony Mrs. Cople frequently ex-
pressed her desire to die as the only
hope of freedom from pain.
The swelling increased daily until,
DIS MIS. OOplG CApI6llilC0 IL 1ooI D16A liz
MY eyes felt as if they were as big
as cabbages. And then they throbbed.
throbbed violently all the time, so
much so that / was afraid the blood
vessels would burst. Then my head
began to swell, too, and got SO large
that I felt as If I were carrying a
great weight on my shoulders. Oh. it
was awful, that pain. morning and
night, night and morning. all the time
getting worse, never any better. L
would have welcomed death in almost
any form"
DR.. Scott Wood, DR.. A. w. Prout and
DR.. J. L. Bennett, oculists and physl-
clans, were finally called. They found
the glands of the left eye protruding
and the woman totally blind under
treatment the pain was allayed and the
swelling reduced in q few days, but
the sight OF the eye more seriously at
fcoted was gone forever and that OF
the other menaced. That is the condi-
ton now.
Mrs. Cople says two men entered her
restaurant early in this month, bought
drinks and one Of them gave her a
ST note in payment. She remembers
rubbing her eyes with her hand shortly
after tie customers departed, and next
morning she felt an itching sensation
in them Later the Inflammation, swell
ing and blindness developed. She be-
was communicated from the bill to her
eyes, but Of what particular natur4:
las not yet been determined. At first
it was surmiSed that she might have
been a victim of vegetable or mineral
poison, but that has been thoroughly
djsproved to the satisfaction Of the
cculists in attendance upon the pa
tent.
'It is the most extraordinary case of
tie kind that ever came to my notice
during my practice said one of the
physicians THAT 1t is acute Ophthal-
mia 1 have not a shadow of doubt, and
that it is the result Of infection, posi-
bly, conveyed by infected money, I
am convinced. Mrs. Cople is still suf-
fering, and the best we can do for her
is to make her as comfortable as we
can. We may be able to save the right
eye, but the other will always be sight
less"
Mrs. Cople is f1fty-four years old.
She never had trouble with her eyes
before, and, except for her present af-
Fiction, enjoys the best Of health.