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Show he (DgtUtt gunctfom PuMish.d 1VBST BVENINO, 8uiihyi excepted byOkiCoDc.i Ptbui8in.K3 Company. Scalped Alive. The Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern details the inost horrible case oh rec ord, which occurred in a shingle mill in that city on Saturday afternoon, the 6th iust. It says: "A girl named Amelia Gruihell, aged about 18 years, was engaged in packing shingles. Just back of her and, and two or three feet above her head ran a shaft which drove part of the machinery. At the time mentioned, feeling somewhat tired of the position in which she was sitting, she raised up and threw her head backwards. Her hair caught in a coupling of the shaft and wound around it. In an instant, and like an electric shock, the top of her head was completely torn off. Indeed, this is but a mild term, as the dreadfulness of .the affair beggars description. The scalp of the entire head reaching down to the eyes on the forehead and to the shoulders at the back was entirely torn off, leaving the whole To be skull bare and glistening mora minute; starting from a point just above the sockets of the eyes, draw a line back, just above the right ear; following the line of the hair around to the place of beginning. The eyebrows, of course were taken off and about half of the left ear. The back being the last place torn off the skin and flesh pealed off the back of the neck to the shoulders, whero it broke off. Tho flesh was (entirely and wholly taken off with the ecalp, leaving the whole skull without a drop of blood or a particle of flesh. The dovetailing of the different divisions of the cranium was distinctly and peculiarly visible. The only places where it bled were over the eyes and around the edges of the wound where flesh was torn from ' flesh. all this horto with say, Strange rible mutilation, the girl felt no thrill o pain; nor. did she for hours after tho accident happened. She never fainted or acted otherwise than in her usual condition and was perfectly rational from the first. The tearing of her scalp was accompanied only by a tickling sensation. This was doubtless caused from the fact that it was done with such rapidity. The shaft was going at the rate of 200 revolutions per minute, and considering .that it only took two or three revolutions of the coupling to wind tho hair completely up, it can fee easily computed that tho terrible s deed was performed in just of one second. As soon as a buggy arrived she got into it unaided and was driven to ker home, nearly two miles from the mill, talking calmly of the accident all the way. In the meantime medical aid had been summoned, and she received such treatment as the case demanded. Tho scalp had been unwound from the Shaft, and sent after her by a messenger, but when it arrived it was dusty and dry, and could not be again affixed to the head.'1 The physicians state that if those about her had had sufficient presence of mind to have clapped the scalp immediately Tjpon her head and kept it compressed as far as possible to its place, they would have been able to make ifc grow back again to is original position. three-fifth- NOTICE! The hostile Sioux have been it work within the last three weeks raiding upon the Ponca Indians, and tome of the white e tilers ia the Niobrara Valley. A few families haying become scared, removed to Niobrara City; but on proper representations of the settlers to the military authorities at Fort Randall, 30 wiles away, Lieutenant Campbell and ten soldiers were sent to scout the country and district where these raids occurred, which command, it is promised, shall be increased in a short time. A small detachment of military stationed in the Niobrara Valley, Neb., was removed last spring, to assist in garrison duty at Ran dall. Until then no Sioux have for two years troubled the settlers. The Ton cas lost 8 head of work oxen about ten days ago, taken from them at night, but as soon as the loss was discovered a party of Indians gathered and cbused the retreating robbers and gallantly drove off the marauders, and recovered six live cattle and two dead ones killed by their enemies and just about to be dished np. 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