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Show Justice Shiras Retires. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. In accordance with the terms of his letter of resignation. Justice 8h4ra yesterday retired from his office as Associate Justice of the Supreme court of the United Statea. The day's record in the matter of opinions handed down was one of the largest ever made. This, was in an effort to clear up the docket of casea in the hearing of which Justice Shiras has participated. The number num-ber of decisions rendered was fifty-five, which left to be delivered only twenty-five twenty-five of the eighty cases which had been argued and were 'undisposed of. Justice Shiras left for Florida soon after the adjournment ad-journment of the court. |