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State convention at Jefferson City, Aug. 31, 1870, into Radicals and Liberals or Bolters, headed by Gen. Carl Schurz. The Liberal candidate, B. Gratz Brown, elected governor......Nov. 8, 1870 Act passes over Governor Brown's veto directing that 422 bonds of the State of Missouri, of $1,000 each, issued in 1852 and falling due in 1872, redeemable in gold or silver coin, be redeemed in legaltender notes......Feb. 8, 1872 Seventy or eighty masked men stop a railroad train at Gun City, Cass county, and murder Judge J. C. Stephenson, Thomas E. Detro, and James C. Cline, charged with complicity in the fraudulent issue of railroad bonds, which imposed a heavy burden upon the tax-payers in that county......April 24, 1872 Railroad bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, designed by James B. Eads and constructed by the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company, formally opened......July 4, 1874 State railroad commission created by act of legislature......March 27, 1875 Ordinance p