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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. A New Year's blizzard swept over the Missouri valley. Mrs. O'Shea thinks Parnell ought to retire, and it is thought that he will do so. Marshall, Field & Co., Chicago, will test the constitutionality of the McKin-ley McKin-ley act. Brazil is to have a World's Fair in 1803, to commemorate the discovery of America. The Illinois steel works, Chicago.slmt down, throwing 15G0 men out of employment. em-ployment. A dispatch from Shanghai announces the death of Prince Chuu, father of the emperor of China. Vice-President Morton has sold his summer residence at F'airland to Isaac Townsend, banker of New York, for $i;io,ooo. A Fairville, 111., sphcial says: Gold has been discovered near this city in the lands of the North Fork company of Danvillo. The usual New Year reception was given at the white house, but the attendance at-tendance was rather slim, owing to the inclement weather. Castle Garden is to be given over to the public as an adjunct to Battery Park. Nearly ten million immigrants have landed at the old fortress. Justin A. Pettigrew, brother of United States Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, died yesterday. Seuator Pettigrew is much incensed at the Christian scientists who attended the sick man. A report is received from Russia that severe anti-semilic measures are being enforeed.that hundreds of Jewish shops are being closed daily, and thousands of females beinz expelled from ditfer-ent ditfer-ent villages throughout Russia. A great exodus of Kussian .lows, especially to America, is looked for in the spring. |