| Show IlltS Ill I1IIC1IH AVDIlSr 10hUI No tlt Still Wi nome Totally Illltul 1 Chicago Dec ISA special to the Tribune from New York says I Mrs Herman O Oelrlehs It Is I said Is I threatened with total blindness Her left eye was wounded on Saturday December t by a tack Saturn It raing while she was superintending the hanging of some tapestries and within the fast rorlght hour the condl ton or hath eytn has beom more serious and alarming Them Is a hope of course that her eyesight may be preserved to her 00 Dr Knapp tho famous oculist nn two other physicians aro treating her I i ante find three trained nurses ore In mitand nrmnn Oelrich line ben constant Iy by his wifes bedside and many or theIr friends cal Cd anti solicitously Inquired In-quired as to her condition ThVr two days will determine whether she will ness bo spared tho affliction ot blind When tills ot recelved the Injury I Mm Oct rchs thought It did not amount to much She attended a dinner and tool cold In the Injured eye Jut on rrlday the affliction took a most verl OUR turn the Inflammation spreading from one eye to the other and mot seriously threatened the sight of both I WD stated at one time on Saturdity evening that Mrs Oolrlch had lot the sigh or her left eve and that there was but I chance or saving the other To 111111 10h11 Chicago Dec 13A committee appointed ap-pointed by tho conference of the seven universities held here 1 November C to suggest such chang its seemed ad lsable In the present fortball rules In order to make the game less rough will I finish their wOk tills neck and wi meeting to bo held next Saturday In Chicago will decide uVitri till ChlgO which tire to lie submitted to the memo bra of the conference for their acton The members or ills committee are J C 11on WIconln A A Stugg Chicago and I I nverett Illinois The committee has done Its 1 work well s far Letters have been sent out to football critics coachera and I players all over the country for our i gestlons as to the proper action in regard re-gard to changes A large number or replies have hen received and the cummIttee will lye I mesa 01 ma tolol to 0 or nld mnny pInts decide d I ror Inlhln < 11 t I 11 kIn k-In nddllol to the lette xv1 h nt tho game will confet wih thc mmltee and discuss the neceps I ties or th game 1 tifflll tla party for New York Chicago Dec 13 Col Ho kins and his pugilistic p i arty cone win I < if nan Prrclon the ItRhlcr and 1 Joe honskl and Bonny Mnrphy Ualncrs v 111 leave the illy lodny Ihelr destination Is I New loth where Cres lon is I to m at McCoy on December 1 f 1 111 wlia Is popularly nipposed rt be th mIddle llr light champions of the w irld < nl though tl men will I not b lllsed to scale bcfirc thy go Into the ring I Quarters for the Ito part have fd been cng red nt Coney lit te an i Creedon f remain there unlll the after af-ter 11 ot the light of the bat The former Austrian never looked littler In his life ned h I Is In the 1 ct inn dl Uon of his i entire career He xpec to wclgh close to 165 pound nhn he faces the OhIo mn In the rin r Ile nloo thinks McCoy will be clop to Shot weight himself Tacy will obobly not mile the content In which I W i rotr brother I has KO much at Make He has been In tnlnlnn with Crcrdon at Pa los Park for his coming contest wllli Joe Walcott on DoIr 2t I A trip iIst and bk would hrdl Improve hp oyIltln 1 tn Walcott Is training I at rtohy Vir the Trao math and has for I companion tM Iant Armstrong wih whom he has two lively BottO cnch Uy 1rothhooo I Uoakohr New York Dec 13 Secrelary I Kopalowlti of the executive board of the United Drothprhoo1 or Cloak maker announced that a national union of cloakmakers with at fire nor membershIp n-or 25000 will be formed before the first of the 5 ear The unions ot Chicago Norton Baltimore Philadelphia Phila-delphia St Louis and Cincinnati favor It The nucleus of the body Nylil be organized or-ganized In this city which has n mem berchlp of SOOO Who the national union In formed strikes which will tie up the entire cloak making Industry indus-try of the country will be ordered to enforce demands for tho abolition of the sweating system and for a ten hour work day i 3000 Prisiters to Srlh Now York Dec ISIt lot I t probable that within forty eight hour the 3000 printers employed In I the IGZ > book and Job printing otllccs of this cly will be Idle 1 the result of 1 strike < No G taken Typographical Union Ias the first step Tho union men In special lrt session have decided lo give the boas ga nightteacceda 11 printers until Tuesday night to accede toby the demand for u ran hoilt day I to-by that time the demand repo0ru un recognized the printers xvP1 strike The union agieed to levy wl1 four percent per-cent campaign tax upon every dollar ca riled by the total Inlon momherhlp nt r nM to be used as n fund to unoort I the strike I thX month ago Typographical Union No6 requested tho proprietors or book And Job offices to meet the wIsh ea of their employes an fix upon nln hours a s a woiklng do Prior to thin tho I winters of Oils country and Canada had by a tvolhlrds vole dared for the same principle and had author I Ized thc International Union to force the issue Tile employers were duly I notified but thy seemInCls Ignored the matter r Then the Typothet held I it meeting and actwrdlng tp the report re-port given out by one r Italultbers a resolution wa punned declining to make nine hours IN working day and uhscrl > lng MOO On a drens fund with which to light any atlempt to enforce the demand All the union book and Job printers or the UnIted Strifes and Canada are watching the struggle I the New I York printers win their brethren else hro will probably Insist on the new time schedule to the fight for which they are already committed by the acton I ac-ton of the International union Help to u Fortune Nw York Dec 13Blames Cave a printer living at Paterson N J has ben notified that he has fallen heir to a fortune of ITO 000 b the death of his grandfather Joseph D Cave which oc cur1 In western Missouri on Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day I Joseph D Cave was a wclltode slave owner In the South before the rebellion find niter ho had lot mot or his property Iurlng tho war times he mod to Missouri where lie prod successful In speculating James Cave Is I hts ole heir le bad not hard or its grandfather for a long time and had no Idea that ho had acquired another fortune A few months ngo Cave started for the Irlondlt gold fields with a companion com-panion named William D White but the bitter deserted him In Chicago after his money was gone and he had to work Ilia way back to Paterson 1 York 10 tho op of luUroI Now York Dec According to the Herald the trunk line railroads have ouccecdcd In obtaining control of near Iy the entire writer front or Grentr Nw York I Is I Iolmed that Independent Inde-pendent lighterage mn are not 01 lowed to touch at their docks In many cases In other cases the railroads It Is I asserted discriminate against Independent Inde-pendent boat men allowing them only two cents n hundred pounds on freight I I Is also announced that many of the 10htero find hartre concerns are go Ing out or the baldness on account or the alleged discrimination Changed Ill 31l 1 fn1 1lgloI Green Day WIs Dec ISThere were no services Sunday In the Old Catholic church of this city Rev A > A Miller the priest of the parish has resIgned from hi his charge has renounced re-nounced the religion nr the Old Catholics and ha accepted Ills Protestant Hani faith Rev Mr Mlllc Plates that he resigned re-signed because thc i congregation was not Wlll to acccpt and abide by the Old Catholic reforms These he pacIOe as the Introduction or nubile nublc confession Instead or private confession nnd the abolishing or the order ot the VIrgin Mary Other than becomllic a Proleslant future he does not give any plan for the KIt 1 As Anne r1r Itartpliortie I T Dec 13Fire started start-ed sometime rriday night In coal bhaft No I at this place Yesterday bhar wore put In by pne company to ex tnguloh the flames Thy round Luk DaI a Iulan mlnr and John Yar ko an Austrian mine dad They were Probably suffocated by smoke having entered the mine secretly to make extra coal for the next day run and went 100 the region or dead line or danger signals The tire wall extnlhd In the hal wa Shaft No2 at Gowan lancing to the same coalcompany In I now on fire ntailing serious loss to the mine comPany nr bonW TIkel Grand Rapids Itch Do 1An agreement ham bn reached hy the principal roads of Michigan whereby Interchangeable 1000 mile tickets will 1 be honored on trains In Michigan wllhout requiring the holder to exchange ex-change tickets a at present This Tl arrangement will go Into effect Jaun airy 1 or as soon a the 1111CAlasiary do Wa can bo arranged I y |