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Show WILL SOON BEWHITE Negro Suffers From PccU-. PccU-. cuilar Disease Which Is Changing His Color. . SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. A special spe-cial dispatch, to the Call says: The latest freak of nature and marvel of the medical scientists is the change of color which Is gradually creeping over the body of a negro porter, Charles Hugo Hu-go Bell, in Colusa. Mutation began several years ago. The spots of white have spread to the face and bands. Although Al-though the victim of this strange disease dis-ease suffers no ill effects at present, he has been advised that as soon as the complete chaqge takes place death will ensue. Bell is a hard laborer and en-Joys en-Joys life, but Is the object, of curiosity. Bell was born in Columbia, Qa., in 186S. His parents were full-blooded negroes, coming direct from Africa as slaves to the United States. |