Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-05-06
THE HAMILTON MIRACLE.
The, Case Investigated BY a
Globe Reporter.
THE FACTS FULLY VERIFIED.
One of the Most Remarkable Cases
on Record.

A Man Pronounced by Eminent PhysI
CLANS Permanently Disabled Fui
KecOVers-Fac-S iMiie of the Check
for y 900 Paid BY Royal Tempiars o.
Temperance for Total Disability
Hundreds 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
recommended nostruns 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
connections for curing the ills that
flesh is heir to; and when real cure
is effected by a genuine remedy those
who might be benefited fight shy of it,
saying, sit was cure, cure so often
before that 1 won't try it." When
such a state of affairs exists it is ad-
visable that assurances should be
made doubly sure.
a few weeks ago marvellous and
almost miraculous cure was made
known to Canadians through the
medium of the Hamilton newspaper.
1t was stated that Mr.. John Marshall,
a well-known resident of Hamilton,
by the aid of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People, had been
snatchcd from the very Jaws of
death, placed upon his feet and enabl-
ed to mlngle with his fellow citizens
with more than renewed health and
strength and even brighter spirits
than ne had experienced for years
before. This remarkable statement
naturally excited the wonder of al
most a continent. Some believed,
most people doubted, although the
facts were placed so clearly as to
ward off the slightest suspicion of
fraud. To investigate the very ex-
traordinary cure and place before the
people of Canada and the United
States verilication or otherwise of it
was the special mission of a Globe
reporter few days ago.
A close inquiry into the circum-
stances first showed that Mr.. John
Marshal, whose residence is Is Little
William street, in the northeastern
portion of the city, while employed
as fore nan 70 the Canadian Oil Com
pany, tIves year age, fell upon the
edg9 OF an Oil vat anu hurt his back
Thinking little of the affair, Mr.Mar-
shall continued to work on, but after
few months he became i'll, grad
ually got worse, and in August, four
years ago, became stricken with that
Il ~
disease attacking the nerves and
attacked perfectly helpless, proclaim
cd by the physicians to be incurable
which lett him from the waist
downwards without feeling and ut
terly unable to move his lower limbs.
All he was able to do was to raise
himself by the aid of sticks and
crutches and drag himself around
the house and occasionally to the cor
ner of the street on fine DAYS. His
legs Were without feeling, pins and
even knives Were stuck into them
without the sick man experiencing
any Inconvenience. He could take
a walking stick and beat his legs un-
til the blows resounded and vet
he telt nothing. During all
these years of torture Mr.. Marshall
consulted every DR.. of ability in the
city; tried form of treatment and took
almost every kind of patent medicine,
out without receiving one title of
relief. The agony 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 by
although the doctors continued to
treat him in various ways, thew
plainly told the suffering man that
he could not get better, the disease
was set down in the works of special
lists as incurable. The doomed man
was member of the United Empire
Council, No. 100, Royal Templars of
Temperance, and under the discour-
aging circumstances he thought it
advisable to apply for the payment
of the total disability claim of 81 900
allowed by the order on its inSur-
ance policy. Application was accord
ingly made, but before the claim was
granted the patient had to offer con
elusive proof of his total disability
to the chief examiner, and Mr.. Mar
shall was sent to Toronto for spec
raj electrical treatment. 1t proved no
more successful than than the other
that had proceeded it, and a number
OF city doctors and the chief medical
examiner of the order signed the
medical certificate of total disability
and Mr.. Marshal received from the
Dominion Councillor of the Royal
Templars check for LOCO last No
eInber. One day last February cam
Mr.. MarshalPs salvation although he
did not accept it at first. A small