The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22

The Man Who Treated Thous IN nds with.
out Money or Price by Touch OF hand
stood On the Street Two Months-Is
He IMs0ne!
One OF the remarkable ply psychological episodes
OF the age. came to q sort OF climax Friday, In
the disappearance of Francis schlatter, 1.-THE
Mexico and ever since September 10Th
has been healing people by the thousands.
A note was found in his room saying, "My
away Good.by." lie was aftcrward seen zen
wandering off toward the hills. Since then
letter has been received from him saying
hey he VII ~ b. IN Chicago Noy soth and stating
devoted to "treatment In private" After that
he will give public demonstrations Of his heal
Ing powers for three months. As to the present
no knowledge. stnumbcrs Of people Of all
classes OF society, have come to him for healing
and hundreds of tales OF wondrous cures are
dition, no especial virtue or holiness for him.
self, made no boasts of his power which he as
crlbcd to IN intimate relation 10 what he calls
from his work. II money Is offered him by
those who seek his aid he Ignores the offer, and
Is apparently content with the plainest Of cloth
same place, beside this Denver street, for sew.
eral weeks. from 8 in the morning until almost
shutdown, and taken by the hand one after an.
other Of the on who pressed to sec him
most q word, and has held for an instant the
handkerchief or trinkct which the patient
brought. In this way he is said to have treated
report that they have seen guests come
apparently afflicted and later have seen
them 60 away happy and well. Han
appearing on crutches before Schlatter and then
walking away without them. Judd Webb of
Omaha WAS treated and his paralysis was In
stantly cured Che man who limped into the
Oxford on crutches walked across the corridor
the next day without support. On the day of
his disappearance over 5000 people had
came into the city from Kansas and Nebraska
and more distant points to be touched by him
and there was great excitement and grief when
he could not be found.
Schlatter was to appear before the United
States commissioners Friday. as witness
against the "blessed" handkerchief fakirs, and
the fear Of becoming entangled in the court pro
ceedings was probably the real reason OF the
disappearance of the man.
Frightful Street Car Accident.
A frightful accident by which r. people lost
their lives, occurred in the heart of the city of
Cleveland. o, Saturday evening. Owing to the
carelessness of street car conductor. who lost
an awful plunge of 100 feet from the Central.
street draw of the central viaduct into the dark
waters of Cuyahoga river. The Central Via
of iron. 1t connects the heights and the pros
perons residence section on the sonth side with
the business centre of the city, At what Is
known as the "derailing switch" some 500 feet
alighted as is the custom of all conductors at
this point, TO see If all was right. The car came
to a standstill, and the motorman waited for
orders. The conductor, for some unaccountable
reason, failed to see the red signal OF danger or
the closed gates, or perhaps custom made him
careless, and he signalled to the motorman to go
ahead. The motorman turned on the clectrlc
current, the conductor jumped aboard the ear, |
acd at considerable speed the car neared the
death trap. few feet tiom the draw II
dawned upon the motorman that 1t was OPEN |
With speed born of desperation he threw the |
handle and applied the brakes. The motor,
man, realizing his danger forsook the precious
cargo he was hauling, and with wild cry
leaped off the front platform, ran down viaduct |
in the direction of Central avenue and disap- |
pearcd in the darkness. At the same instant
two male passengers jumped off the rear plat
form and escaped death as by a miracle. The
slant the crash of swapping iron and breaking
glass was heard. This alarmed the conductor, |
who had stepped inside, and he was seen to
make dash for the rear door but he was TOO
of the awful space and toppled over. The car
struck upon projection of piles In the aDut- |
ment beneath the draw, then turning ana col
lapsing 1t fell into the river below: Men from
witnessed the accident called to the men on the |
tug to pick up the people. but only two passen- |
gers, one man and one woman, were rescueo'
A daughter of Frank Chisman, of Middletown
Ind, swallowed pin six years ago ana the doc
tors could not remove it. She became i'll last
ing from her back, just below the shoulder
blades, and was removed. The girl died last
week and her ailment was so peculiar tnat an
examination Of the body was made. It was
found that the pin had worked Its way through
her spinal column, rupturing the suturc which
connects the vertebrae, so that the spinal
column rotted apart and four of the vertebrate
had entirely disappeared.