Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-09-27
MIRACULOUS.
Wonderful Escape OF q Number OF
Our Prominent Citizens.
An Arch Enemy Foully Conspires tc
Destroy Their Lives.
Full Statement by the Survivors.-Thci,
Painful Experience.

| An alarming state of affairs has been dis
! covered in our midst. Hundreds of our citi.
zens have been seized with mysterious svmp-
| toms of illness, which have puzzled learned
physicians and scientists alike. Some have
! rapidly succumbed and fallen by the waysile
| like parched and thirsting plants under the
| scorchins and withering rays of pi,iless
midsummer sun. Others have suffered all
| the pangs aud torments of the horrible inqui.
| sition. Their limbs have been racked with
excruciating pains, while their bodies have
burned with IN inward and consuming fire,
anquenchable, uncomfortable, until, when
| mind has been destroyed, and the soul tor
tured beyond human endurance. they have
died death of misery and anguish. Some OF
| their friends have suggested poison. basing
their opinion, perhaps, on certain astounding
| revelations made by recent chemical analy-
ses conducted in this city, still no traces
| could be found of mineral poisoning, and the
only questions remaining to be answered
were. care these cases of blood-poisoning,
| and il so, in what manner Of form was the
contamination brought about? Have our
friends. who have been ruthlessly tax, n
away from us. been made the unwilling vie
tins of treacherous men, who, under the garb
of friendship, have sought their acquaintance
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poignard?" A reporter was put upon the
trail, given plenty of time to investigate the
affair, and commanded to probe the mystery
| to its very bottom. sparing nobody in prose-
cutting the inquiry. Ii was necessary first to
interview some of those who had passed
through the trying ordeal in safety, and OBJ
| tain from them an account of their several
experiences. The first person interviewed
was Mr. FRANK DNoh' 'onsorlai artist
N"o"" ~ aoou' aii our Prihripai ousihess
'nen nc Is "o" e"eageu a. ha"ton ION
s"i"l roon's, On Nor'l, MAJ" street ar
LiNoh salu tnat ihe niaiady completely used
him up ny, SAID he, II couldn turn
over III my oeu whenever desired 10 Vaeatt
uy w" ii'u 10 'e ''''eu "u' oi II, anu couiu
"u' go up an" u""" s'"rs "thou' t"e al" OF
op'eie. M, n"o IT. anu Ut. attenn'
ins l'e' !ney uoseo me WIN 'nis me"ieihe
anu .nei ~, " i'n '"a'' ou' W'thout giving NE any
re,ie,. rlha'ly, ~nen l had ABOUT gwen up
an luea ~, "a ee,'lng pe'.er' some one asked me
mny uiu not .ry h9h' hemeoy. had ou'
'i''ie iai,h III Tue compound sun l was per
suaueo 10 get oo.,ie OF II. Before l had
'aNe" '"o-,n,f"s Vi 'he quan..y coi'taineu IN
'''at ohe po'tie oeean 10 Ieei lts sood ehects'
anu ny Tue .iipe had hhished IL was aoie
~ 20 uo"h low" anu a''enu 10 my business:
! o"ugnt ancther oot'ie OF the hemedt ana
,ook nan "i IT, ana SINCE then l nave never
oeeh trouoieu WIN the maiady, when proved
III 'he emu 10 nave pen an uhcommoniy Sc
we're "''ack o' tue kidney complaint see
peoPie every uav Walkihg apont our streets
whoh 1 KNOW, IL they had NOT used hunts
hemeuy' ~oulu nave been iald away to sleep
inc iohg sieep hiohths ago. MY attack was
se'e" vi eieht years ago, anu tel you IL was
a pretty .ough one ana ie1t me IN very had
| SOlle 1ued DI Wndt suHereu can De
gained rom the iact tnat my weight feil from
~ PUunds Gown 20 izZ POUNDS.
'ul, more "opusIiui was .he experience OF
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not 'ane s'ep ~. iour nnoii'hs' MS physi-
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siue vi ms ms pouy. from tnat t'me untii feo'
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III ms H"ees' "Hich hau oeco'ne ueciuedIy
sun ne was .old that @ me couio never re-
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