Congress aims 5,000 volunteers for Indian war enlistment
Congressman Crounse introduced a bill in Congress last Friday proposing the enlistment of 5,000 volunteer soldiers from Nebraska Colorado and Utah for the Indian war. Major North of Columbus telegraphed on Saturday to Gen. Sherman offering to furnish 1,000 volunteers within ten days.
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Crounse
Congress
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
Major
Columbus
Gen. Sherman
The Indian Question and a Policy to Subdue Sioux
A critical editorial argues for hardline measures against the Sioux following Custer’s defeat. It endorses abolition of tribal rights, division into small reservations, confiscation of arms, and swift subjugation as the path to civilization and order on the frontier.
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Custer
Our Troops Meet With a Terrible Disaster
A Montana Herald dispatch reports General Custer attacked an Indian camp on the Little Horn river with 2 000 lodges. Major Reno fought a separate action. Custer and many officers were killed. The battle, near present day Garryowen, left vast casualties and a shaken command as survivors retreat toward the Little Horn mouth.
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Sarr Lae
Holena
Montana
Herald
Skiiwarr
Muggins Taylor
Gibbon
Little Horn River
Custer
Little Horn
Reno
Seventh Cavalry
Little Torn
Taylor
Salt Lake
Bozeman
Fort Ellis
Col. Reno
Ren
Narro
Terry
Lieut. Crittenden
Crittenden
Curiaco
Army
Sheridan
Philadelphia
Bull
Clum
Crook
New Railroad Extension Suggested Through Nebraska
The Geneva View urges extending the Covington Columbus and Black Hills line through Polk York Fillmore and Thayer counties to Belleville Kansas. The project would bring Nebraska residents lumber from the north and coal from the south, offering cheap fuel and materials. The paper believes the proposal should be seriously considered by residents along the route.
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Geneva
Fillmore County
Covington, Columbus
Black Hills R
Polk
York, Fillmore
Thayer
Belleville
Kansas
Nebraska
Grain Trade of Columbus Shifts to Record Shipments
From September 1, 1875 to June 20, 1876 Columbus shipped 1 843 car loads of grain. Projections from September 1875 to September 1876 suggest over 2 000 car loads and more than half a million bushels in 1876, marking a growth from earlier years with 2 000 bushels in 1872 and 1 343 car loads by last year.
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Columbus
Columbus Tra
Prominent church member misreads day in Sunday farming tale
A local story tells of a church member who spent Sunday plowing corn thinking it was Saturday. Monday he went to church, found neighbors at work, and then turned his horse home, noting the Fourth of July had brought the reckoning.
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Web
Pondence
Dare Pit
Ade
Daniel
Washington
Factor
Whith
Beige
N.J
Lebanon
Orrin Sane
Daniel F. Beatty
WN. J
Gant
Asi
Cvarysey
Polk
Svanebraska
J. P. Smith
Jessie R. Roberts
Osceola
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Olceola, Neb
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ohio
William A. Wheeler
New York
New Railroad Enterprise
Grain Trade of
Blair & Wiggins
HW P. Coolidge
Beyer
Pete Ee
11Th and
Olive Streets
RMERS
Columbus Market
Grain & C
James Dell
C. C. ‘Cobb
People of
York
Seward
Hamilton Counties
Cery
Plac
Public Square
Tarise Machitinery
Bea i Mya
Rulngst
Ian Gal
Danie
Pyting
McCormick Harvester
A.J. Hopers Hatnes
The
Nichols, &Shepard Co
Wibrater
Y. Ae
Tor Press
Haliday
Wilson
ING
Aetna Insurance Company
Court House
Shell Ap
Mlowring
Becker & Why
Danial Fr
Wasuractus
Wiscom
ROCHE
Larpe
Erro
Nebrasksy
Wedai
M. Cummingson
West
Tl. Ames & Co
Q'Ciock
Jas. Wosnider
Atihha
Lancombe ” Saincoln, Nebr
Land Office
Hamilton
York Counties
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Sheldon
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Isouth
Square
U. P
A. A. Ticehurst
Washington, N. J. U
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G. W. Phillips
Prop
Columbus State
Beatty
Parloer
Washington, N.J
U.S.A
A, Henry
Neraska
Polk County
Geo. E. Draie
Z . Zinta
Drake
Cone
Engine House Square
Geo. E. Drake
Agt
Columbus, Nes
the New American
W . J. Msie
Suit & Congz
Stromsburg
Globee
Prise
Relsalle
Zebrasky
Daily Globe
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