Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1904 — Sullivan May Lose His Sight. [ARTICLE]

Sullivan May Lose His Sight.

Boston, Mass., March 24.—John L. Sullivan has been ordered by bis physician to go to Hot Springs as soon as he Is able to sit up. He is still confined to his sister’s home and is in danger of losing bis eyesight. He believes he contracted the disease in his eyes from germs in a towel used in a New York hotel. Both eyes are badly swollen and inflamed and the former champion cannot see to read.