The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-08-08
On IA nj ef,ican Travellers
Checks When They Are
Cashed in Germany.

handed down by the Imperial Supreme
eourt at beipsic. which rules that
the travellers checks issued " NUM-
Der of American institutions and
widely used by american tourists in.
Europe are subject TO the regular
stamp tax on commercial paper when
eashed in Germany This decision.
was taken in the, suit brought by the
German branch OF an american ex-
pressing company to recover $3.50
stamp taxes collected by the HAM
burg taxation authorities on travel
ers. checlss so cashed, the supreme
court holding with the eourts Of
lover instance that the SPECIALIZED
echeeks9 are IN reality not checks but
bills Of exchange. The company Will
hereafter have to pay stamp tax.
The Prussiati state railways have
installed at the larger, railway sta
lions machine which prints railway
tickets while you wait" enabling
them to dispense with the great stock
OF tickets to all towns in the empire
necessarily kept on hand under the
old system. "A turn OF large wheel
to the name offtlre desired station and
apressure on. lever and the ticket
with Its cost plainly printed on 1t.
drops from the machine, by self
fegistering connection. the ticket sell
Ter at the end of his period of duty
can ten exactly how many tickets he
has sold and tho amount of money
/ he is to turn over to his successor,
while formerly he had to take inyen-
tory of the entire stock each time he
went or duty, his successor having
also to check up tickets on hand,
4n3oiylng sometimes an hour or
more hard labor.
German CITIES are in process of
rapid growth. not only in population
nut also in all sorts OF public under
takings to add to the comfort and
pleasures OF life. The rapid pace at
which city halls, school houses, hos
pitfalls, asyluans and parks have been
/ built has necessarily caused also a
correspondingly rapid increase in mu-
nicipal Indebtedness. According to
the latest statistics. issued by, the
Prussian government, the aggregate
/, Indebtedness of Prussia towns Of more
than 10000 inftabitants Increased
from $7os, O,OOosRto ist.G7T. 100000,
or above SO per Gent during the five
years ended tafasciSSt. l91is During
/ this period the ,mqnicIpal debt Of cit
les with poppiatton of 100000 or
more. except Berlin. Increased from
s17S. 900, 600 to 1851 100000. The
debt of Berlin is now $1O3,O0O.Ooo. It
increased only about 81. 100000 in
the Ave years. but further; Ibig in
crease Is now planned.
Four Catholic priests have just
been sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment by the military court at
Diedenhofen, Lorraine. uuder peculiar
circumstances. On April they were
called out along with the reserves for
short period OF military training.
As they were not regular reserves,
but substitutes. they appeared in a
body at headquarters and asked to
be excused. The captain in charge
curtly refused that request. and added:
LAS long as you are under my orders
no God can help you" One OF the
priests was also sent up to head
quarters to answer the grave charge
OF having, in petition to the district
sergeant. used the word request" in
stead Of ."beg."
Finally the -four. men drew up al
statement of their grievances and sent
IL to the commanding colonel of the
district, concluding with the words:
III the matter is not settled 10 a man
ner satisfactory to us, we shall feel
compelled to have 1t brought up In
the Diet" (the new legislature oil
Alsace-Lorraine).
This was looked upon as contrary
to military Regulations which prohIb-
1t the handling OF joint complaints
by several persons. and the threat
was looked upon as an insult to the
military power, as well as resistance TO
The Colonel carried the
matter before the appropriate mill
tary court, which fully sustained his
view. anG had no option but to infict
the minimum sentence OF six months
Imprisonment.
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A newtreatrnent for cancer, which
the experImeuters are careful to de-
scribe as yet as Treatment" and
not as cure" is being tried in Pro-
fessor czerny's Samaritan Hospital at
Heidelberg with results even more
favorable than were anticipated.
The treatment is biased on discov-
cry made in Investigating the. effects
of Rontgen and radium rays upon
cancer. It was found that these rays
transformed lectithin, phosphorlzed
fat found in the tissues of,'the body
into cholin. substance we'll known
to chemistry. and It was conjectured
that ~ Was tbto obntF, u,kt,h krat,.