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Show FLASHES FROM J THE WIRES, j ' dxnjuumruvuvuvuxruuxrura At Puerto Cabell yesterday the Venezuelan Vene-zuelan gunboat Restaurador, which. was captured by -the Germans, was handed over by them to the Venezuelan authorities. authori-ties. . :,.-.. . , ' In Hazleton, Pa., according to information informa-tion given out b the mine-workers, about 100 men In the Seventh district who went on strike last May are still idle. The Stanton (Pa.) colliery resumed yesterday, yes-terday, after being Idle for a year on ac- count of being flooded. Fully six hundred men and boys were given employment In Wllkesbarre, Pa., the anniversary of the birth of Washington was not observed by the coal mine-workers of the Wyoming valley. Kvery mine was working full handed all day. Oen. Frederick Funston arrived in Kansas Kan-sas City from Denver yesterday, spent most of the day there, and left late In the afternoon for Allen county,- Kansas, to visit his parents. Gen. Funston will leave Denver March 10th for Vancouver barracks. bar-racks. In an opinion delivered by Justice Holmes In the case of Kidd vs. the State of Alabama, the United States Supreme 'court held that a State has the right to tax the stock of railroad incorporated in another State, which is held by an estat in the State seeking to exercise the power. ' The United States Supreme court has decided the case of the Louisville & Jef-fersonvllle Jef-fersonvllle Ferry company adversely to 1 the contention of the State of Kentucky that the State had the right, to tax not only the company's Kentucky franchise, but also its Indiana franchise. The opinion opin-ion was delivered by Justice Harlan. |