Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1880, OCT. 712 ELECTION Oct. 10 - The Red Cross Flouring Mill at Parkville is sold to Reading & Co. for $8,000. Oct. 13 - ANTHONY W. LINDSAY having died, Mary A. Lindsay administers. Bond, $2,000. 1. Mary Lindsay 2. Scott H. Lindsay 3. Geo. D. Lindsay 4. Eldora M. Lindsay 5. Mary Lindsay Oct. 20 - The Advocate publishes over a hundred names of the Platte City Allen Club. L. Shephard withdraws from the Greenback party, and returns to the Democratic fold. NOVEMBER ELECTION NOV. 2 - THOMAS ALVIS shot by George W. Chinn, at the Virginia Hotel, in Platte City. He lingered for four weeks, with a bullet in the brain, and died. Chinn was indicted, tried and aquitted. The Hog Law