The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-22
Disease Communicated by
Paper Money.
New York Woman Loses the
Sight of One of Her Eyes.
very Interesting Case Argued Be-
fore Appellate Court.

Many reports have been made during
recent years about diseases having been
communicated by bank bills. Half
dozen years ago there was case OF
typhoid fever In this city which the
friends OF the sufferer asserted was caused
by paper money he had taken In the
usual course of business but which came
from house in which very severe case
of the fever existed at the time. When
this story was published, its truth was
doubted in several quarters and the claim
wss made that the paper money was in
no way responsible for the appearance Of
the disease. There was never, however,
any authoritative explanation and the
matter was very soon forgotten. From
New York comes an apparently autben-
tic report which seems TO show that
Diseases can be communicated by paper
money. Mrs. Joseph Cople. who conducts
4 restaurant az 20 Fort y-frst street,
Brooklyn, has lost the sight OF one of her
eyes, and IL 10 feared by her physicians
that she may lose the sighr OF the other
eve from an infection believed TO have
sne handled In the course OF her busi-
ness.
Mrs. Copies trouble with her eyes be-
gan three weeks ago last Thursday, when
they became infiamed and the lids began
TO swell. At first, thinking that II was
merely the result of a sewers cold she
attempted 10 treat herself. As the affec-
tion OF her eyes grew worse and caused
her most intense pain Drs. Scott Wood,
A. w. Prout and j. L.. Bennett were
calSad in. They found the patients eyes
In very serious condition. with the
signt OF the left eye entirely gone, and
that of the other endangered. Under the
treatment of the physicians Mrs. Copies
eyes grew somewhat better, Dut are still
very painful. She remembers having
rubbed her eyes shortly before the in
f1ammation set I'm, just after having
handled 81 bill which had been given
her by one of three men who had taken
meal In her restaurant. She believes,
a. does DR.. Wood, that the infection
which caused the trouble was eommuni-
cated from the money.
One of the interesting arguments made
yssteroay before Chief Justice Matteson
and Judge Tiliinghast was on the ques-
sion ~ to when the time should be fixed
FOR the payment Of interest on the legacy
left by DIR. Chase Wiggin to Dartmouth
college. Cyrus NJ Van SIyck, who ap-
pesred for the executors OF the will, ar
gued that interest should only run from
the time of the formal notice Of accept
ance OF the legacy by the college. Il.
4 X. Parker, counsel for the college, claim
ed that there was no reason that this case
should be considered in a different light
from Others and claims that interest was
due from one year after the testator's
/. dsath.
rhs amount OF the legacy Is $1,000 and
the Income ia TO be used for the educa
tion OF students who must not be ad-
dictsd to the use Of alcoholic liquors or
tobacco and must use their Influence to
rtstrain the use of tea and coffee as bev-
erkge. DIR. Wiggin died in 1891 and the
/. trustees of Dartmouth College did not
formally accept the legacy until 1894, so
there iS two years interest In dispute.