Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-18
HAMILTON MIRACLE.
The Case Investigated BY a Globe
Reporter-The Facts Fully
Verified.

Reporter-The Facts Fully
Verified.
One Of the Most Remarkable Cases On
Kecoryl-A Man Pronounced by Em,n-
.u. Physicians Permanently Disabled
Fully Receivers Fac-Simile of Check
For 81 1000 Paid by Roval Tcmplars of
Temperance For Total Disability-Hund-
Jrcds of Visitors.
Toronto Daily Globe, July 25: This
is an age of doubt; especially in re-
gard to cures by patent medicines, and
not without reason, for too often have
the sick and their near and dear loved
ones been deceived by highly recommend.
ed nostrums that were swallowed to be
of less avail than as much water. The
old, old fable of the boy and the wolf ap-
plies also too frequently to many of the
specific concoctions for curing the ills
that flesh is heir to; and when q real
cure is affected by a genuine remedy
those who might be benefited fight shy
of it, saying, "it was cure, cure so often
before that I won't try it" When such
a state of affairs exists it is advisable
that assurance should be made doubly
sure.
A few weeks ago a marvellous and
almost miraculous cure was made known
to Canadians through the medium of
the Hamilton newspapers. It was stated
that Mr.. John Marshall, a well-known
resident of Hamilton, by the aid of DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People,
Lad been snatched from the very jaws of
death, placed upon his feet and enabled
to mlngle with his fellow citizens with
more than renewed health and strength
and even brighter spirits than he had ex-
perenced for years before. This remark
able statement naturally excited the Won
der Of almost a continent. Some believ-
ed, others doubted, although the facts
we're placed 81 clearly as to ward off t 10
slightest suspicion of fraud. To investi-
gate the very extraordinary cure and
place before the people of Canada and the
United States notifications or otherwise
of it was the special mission of a Globe
reporter a few days ago. A close inquiry
into the circumstances first showed that
MIR. john Marshall, whose residence is
Is Little William street, in the northeast
portion Of the city, while employed as
foreman for the Canadian Oil Company,
i've years ago, fell upon the edge of an
OIL vat and hurt his back. Thinking little
ofthe affair, Mr.. Marshall continued to
work on, but after a few months became
Ill, gradually got worse, and in August,
four years ago, became stricken with the
dread disease, locomoter ataxy-a disease
attacking the nerves and rendering that
portion Of the system attacked perfectly
helpless, proclaimed by the physl-
Clans to be incurable which left
MIN from the waist downwards
without feeling and utterly unable to
move his lower limbs. All he was able
to 10 was to raise himself by the aid of
sticks and crutches and drag himself
around the house and occasionally to
the corner Of the street on fine days.
Ills legs we're without feeling, pins and
even knives were stuck into them with
out the sick man experiencing any in
convenience. He could take a walking
SUCK and beat his legs until the blows
tesounded through the house and yet he
telt nothing. During all these years cf
torture Mr.. Marshall consulted every
doctor of ability in the city; tried every
form Of treatment and took almost every
KIND OF patent medicine, but without re-
celVlne n little of relief. The agony
was frequently so intense that he was
obliged to take morphine pills in order
70 receive a reasonable amount of sleep
AS the months and years passed by,
although the doctors continued to treat
n'm In various ways, they plainly told
Tue suffering man that he could not gel
oetter, the disease was set down in the
works OF specialists as incurable. The
uoomed man was q member of the
United Empire Council, No. 100, Royal
iemplars of Temperance, and under The
encouraging circumstances he thought
~ advisable to apply for the payment Of
me total disability claim of $1,000 al.
'owed by the order on it's insurance
pollcy. Application was accordingly
made, but before the claim was granted
'he patient had to offer conclusive proof
VI Ills total disability to the chief OK
amlner, and Mr.. Marshall was sent tt
Toronto for q special electrical treat
meht. 1t proved no more successful
Juan the others that had preceded II
ana a number of city doctors and th,
cAlef medical examiner ofthe order signet