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Dr. Louis Sambon, one of the lead ing scientists and a specialist on pellagra, was in Union a few hours Saturday. He had been in attendance upon the pellagra conference in Spartanburg last week, and came to Union upon the invitation of the Un ion Board of Health to see a num ber of cases of pellagra here. Dr. Sambon advances the theory that pellagra is an insect-boring dis ease, possibly the intermediary host being the Buffalo gnat. Since com ing to America, Dr. Sambon, in look ing over the field, concludes that it could just as easily be the common stable fly; not the common house fly, that is often seen on cattle, that car ries the disease to human beings just as the mosquito carries material poising to human beings—by biting them. These are only theories, not yet proven, and there are many who still contend that eating damaged corn or some other impure food is the cause of the disease. Beri beri is produced from eating damaged rice; scurvy is produced on shipboard by eating salt meat without fresh vegetables, show ing that diseases are produced by certain faulty diets. Many yet con tend that damaged corn, or some oth er damaged food product is respon sible for pellagra. Dr. Sambon is a member of the faculty of the London School of Med icine, holding the chair of Tropical Diseases. He will go from this state to the West Indies, where he will gather data for his investigations. Dr. Siler, a member of the Thomson- McFadden Commission, was in Un ion with Dr. Sambon. This commis se armed recently hr a SOBER menafer’ while it is named. The commission is appointed as follows: The government appoints one from the navy and one from the army, these two select the third member. Dr. Siler is of the U. S. A.; Dr. Gar rison is from the U. S.N., and Dr. McNeil, of the Post Graduate school of New York is the third member chosen by the first two appointed by the government to carry on this in vestigation. Drs. Sambon and Siler visited a number of patients in Un ion, accompanied by the physicians having these patients here. They al so visited Buffalo, but there found no fresh cases of the disease. They spoke in high terms of the sanitary conditions at Buffalo and in the Un ion Mills village. The chief cause of the excellent conditions being the fact that a sewerage system is in op eration in both villages there, and Mr. Horn was tring to jerk loose from him. One of the children says, “He is beating him with his billy,” and I looked and saw him hit him four or five times. He, Mr. Horn, looked to me as if he was trying to get out of back door, and about that time the pistol fired, I did not see the pistol fire I went down the road hollering and came back and run in the house, I saw Mr. Horn lying on the floor with blood on his shirt bosom, I then went out and ran around the house and came back in again. I saw Mr. Horn threw up his arm but did not see him strike Mr. Harris. I did not see Mr. Horn out at Mr. Harris with anything. I never heard either one curse, did not hear them speak at all. This was about half past 4 o’clock. I have lived next to him about two years. At times Mr. Horn looses his mind. He has been to the asylum one time. He did not seem to me that he was drunk, he looked to be as if he was not at his right mind. He had not been at home more than an hour when the police came. I said to the police, “You killed that man for nothing,” and he never made me any answer. (Signed Sallie Howell Mrs. George Wood being duly sworn, says: I had been to see Mrs. Sol Vinson, this was about 4 o'clock when I got back at Mrs. Horn’s back door I saw the police and Mr. Smith Fowler coming, and Mr. Fowler went in at his back door, and told Mr. Harris there was Mr. Horn’s door. I walked on down to the front cor ner of Mr. Horn's garden. I was at the back side when Mr. Harris took hold of Mr. Horn and told him to come on. Mr. Horn says, “What Continued on last page.
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Union, South Carolina, US
Fri, Sep 12, 1913
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