The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-10
X-RAY CANCER CURE
Desperate Case at Marquette Is
Yielding to Treatment.

Yielding to Treatment.
I MARQUETTE, Neutrality-suspicious. re-
suits in the cure of cancer by means Of the
| X-ray are being obtained by Dr. Mark
| ham in the case OF George MacGregor of
Au Train. 1t Is the first time the treat
ment has been resorted to in Northern
| Michigan and it's progress Is being
watched with interest by the medical pro-
| fession.
T MacGregor was first afflicted with can
Ger in November, 1901 his jaw being at
tackled. The dicease had passed the oper-'
| ating stage when it was decided to resort
| to the X-ray. At that time MacGregor
could barely stand and was almost frantic
! with pain. His face was badly swollen,
and the cancer had eaten a hole as large
| as hens egg In the under side of the
| jaw and was close to the sjugular vein,
| threatening an early fatal termination of
the case.
! The first X-ray treatment afforded in
| slant relief and entirely banished the pain
Successive treatments have been effective
| and the cancerouS hole Is healing and a
| permanent cure Is considered practically
| certain. .e....
| The treatment is very simple, the pa
| tient merely seating himself by table
on which stands the Crooks tube, the rays
! from which penetrate the bandages and
attack the cancer without the man ex-
per1encing a sensation out of the ordinary.
AS a precautionary measure, however the
X-ray Is only permitted to play on the
diseased flesh, the other surfaces being
protected by sheet lead.
The period during which it will be neces-
sary to continue the treatment is problem
atical, but already the work Of the X-ray
has been almost past belief.
FORT DODGE, loWA-Fighting des-
| perately with brooms, several women ex-
| tinQ11iSha6 O fro OF oF ;oI,o ~
Kohout, where three small children were
locked up. The father was away on his
days work, and the mother had gone on
an errand, when the summer kitchen
caught fire from the cook stove The
women of the neighbOrhood rushed to the
rescue. They got tub of water, and
armed with brooms, set about extinguish-
ing the blaze BY the time the fire de-
partment reached the scene, the fire was
under control, and the children were
| saved.-The first steel for the new Chi
cago, Great Western bridge across the Des
Moines river valley has arrived. A track
laying machine is here and work will be
| commenced at once on the main line
track.-The county officers expect to take
possession of the new Webster county
courthouse on Saturday. Dedicatory ex-
ercises will be held tomorrow and Friday
Dolliver, Senator T. d. Healy, R. NJ
Wright and Judge w. S. Kenyon.
| DULUTH, MlNN.-Fifteen bears have
been shot in the city limits of Duluth in
the past sixty days, the fifteenth being
shot yesterday by a Lakeside man. Two
bears have been killed by schOolboys-The
Mesaba Electric Railway company has
filed articles and it's purpose is to connect
the towns and mines Of the Mesaba range
by a first class trolley line. G. G. Hartley
O. D. Kinney and other Duluth men are in
the corporation. Buffalo capitalists are
also interested.-Captain Patrick Ryan
master Of the schooner Noquebay, Is
missing. His home is in Saginaw, where
he has a fanily.-S. P. Cook eyed IT, one
Of the brightest lads in the Duluth high
school was found dead in bed. It is said
he took carbolic acid by mistake for medi-
cine "
PRINCETON, MINN.-Princeton is tc
have one Of the finest stations within 200
miles of the twin cities The Great North
ern railway will let thescontract next Sat
urday, It, will be 32x200 feet, built of
Princeton cream brick, with sandstone
trimmings. The interior will be of hard
wood finish, and will be lighted with cleo
trio lights and warmed by steam There
will be a basement with closets and lava
tories.-Last Monday afternoon the
threshing engine and separator belonging
to Caster Bros, who were at work on J.
D. Tann's farm south of town, caught fire
and together with 400 bushels of oats and
wheat were totally destroyed. The en-
CINE and separator were insured but the
grain was a total loss:
BELLE FoUREHE, S. D.-The repub
licans of Butte county placed the follow
ing ticket In the% field: Fred M. Fuller
sheriff; Walton Hamilton, treasurer
George E. Hair auditor; j. w. Van Horn
register of deeds; J. S. Whitney, state
attorney; Elmer Ralston, clerk of courts
Miss Emma Woods, superintendent! O
schools; John Ingram assessor; H. M
Champney, coroner; w. r. Classic, mem
Der Of the house. The convention adopte,
resolutions endorsing the national an,
state administrations, and the candidac,
, ofeEben W. Martin and Charles H. Burk
!, for congress and A. B. Kittredge for Unit
. ed States senator.
. .HlBBTNG, MINN.-For some time pas
=. blind pigs have been running wide opel
in and about Chisholm and in conse
quence John Defurnish is serving sixt
days. There are some thirty saloons Il
Chisholm and John Omtvedt, a license
3 saloonman, got after the illegal liquor sell
. ers in earnest and the judge helped hir
4 out. A bear weighing 500 pounds was kille
= in the outskirts Of Chisholm by a time
u keeper of the railway crawling outfit
y Bear, moose and deer are plentiful in tn
8 woods north. .-.-. s.',. d, go
EGAN, S. D.-Fire was discovered in
. pile Of rubbish in the yard Of the Depo
- hotel and the building had narrow escap
a from total destruction. The fence aroun
v the enclosure was wholly destroyed, an
{ the north end Of the hotel scorched, bu
beyond this there was little damage.
is thought the fire started from a spar
from passing locomotive. The loss
q covered by insurance.-It is expected tn
l. local telephone exchange 4. will be com
= pleted in about two weeks. M
le kENsINGEoN, MINI. = Theor
" Thompson, suffering from powder burr
on one side of his face and a wound frol
q rifle ball in the neck presented htmse
n at DR.. Nuns office. There is a myster
= about the shooting which Thompson doe
Or not seem inclined to clear up. H
er wounds are not considered dangerous
Is John Helm, miller at, the Holmes Cit
Roller mills had his hand crushed to
pulp. It was caught and drawn into tt
lg rolls Amputation will be necessary.
et GRANTSBURG, WIS.-Arthur G. Bow
NJ general manager of the Consolidated Tel
or phone and Telegraph company of Mime
apolis, has secured about forty subscribe
to local exchange in this village al
& will put the phones in mediately. I'll
a. M, {pfap6s IN rim lines ca ST cO1