Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-06
THE HAMILTON MIRACLE,
The Case Investigated by a
Globe Reporter.
THE FACTS FULLY VERIFIED.
Ono of the Most Remarkable
Cases on Record.
A Man Pronounced by Eminent Physi-
clans Permanently Disabled Fully
Recovers-- Fac -sinlile of the Check
for 1000 Paid by Royal Tenn

for $1,000 Paid by Royal Tenn
plars of Temperance for
Total Disability = Hun
drcds of Visitors.
ToRoxTo DAILY GLonE. July 25.--This is
an age of doubt especially in regard to
cures by patent medicines, and not with
out reason, for too often have the sick and
their near and dear loved ones been de
ceiSed by highly recommended nostrums
that were swallowed to be of less avail
than as much water. The old old fable
of the boy and the wolf applies also too
frequently to many of the specific CON
coctions for curing the ills that flesh IS
heir to- and when real cure is effected
by genuine remedy those who might be
benefited fight shy Of it, saying. ut was
cure, cure, so often before that won't
try it," When such "a state Of affairs exists
il is advisable that assurance should be
made doubly sure.
few weeks ago a marvellous and
almost miraculous cure was made known
y Canadians through the medium of the
Hamilton newspapers. 1t was stated that
Mr.. John Marshall, a wel-known resident
Of Hamilton, by the aid Of Or. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People, had been
Snatchci from the very Jaws of DEATH
placed upon his feet and enabled to minge
with his fellow citizens with more than
renewed health and strength and even
brighter spirits than he had experienced
for years before. This remarkable state
ment naturally excited the wonder of
almost a continent. Some believed, most
people doubted, although the facts were
placed so clearly rs to ward off the
slightest suspicion of fraud. 10 investigate
the very extraordinary cure and place be-
fore the people of Canada and the United
states ycrlication or otherwise of it was
the special mission OF Globe reporter d
few days ago.
\ close inquiry into the circumstances
first showed that Mr.. John Marshall,
whose residence is % Little William
street, in the northeast portion of the city,
while employed AS foreman for the
Canadian Oil Company, five years ago, fell
upon the edge Of All oil vat and hurt his
back. Thinking little of the affair, MIR.
Marshall continued to work on, but after
Il few months he became ILL., gradually
got worse, and in August, four years ago,
became stricken with tue dread disease,
loepmotor ataNy--a disease attacking the
nerves and rendering that portion OF the
system attacked perfectly helpless, pro,
claimed by the physicians to be incurable
which left him from the waist down
NaFuS without Icellng ana utterly unable
to move his lower limbs. All he was able
TO do was to raise himself by the aid of
sticks and crutches aud drag himself
around the house aud occasionally to the
corner OF the street Oh fine days. His legs
were without feeling, pins and even knives
We're stuck into them without the sick
man experiencing any inconvenience. He
could take walking stick and beat his
legs until the blows rGsOunded through the
house and yet he felt nothing. During all
these wears of torture Mr.. Marshall CON
suited every doctor of ability in the city,
tried every form of treatment and took
almost every kind OF patent medicine, but
without receiving one title of relief The
agSly was frequently so intense that he
was obliged to take morphine pills in order
to receive reasonable amount Of sleep.
As the months and years passed bv.
although the doctors continued TO treat
him in various ways, they plainly told the
suffering man that he could not get better.
the disease was set down in the works of
specialists as incurable The doomed man
was member Of the United Empire
Council, No. 100, Royal TcmpIars Of TEN.
perance, and under the dscnuragng cir
eumstances he thought il advisable to apply
for the payment of the total disability
claim of HOOD allowed by the order on is
insurance policy Application was accord.
ingly made, but before the claim was
granted the patient had to offer conclusive