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Show GOVERNMENT LOSES SUIT. Must Repay $112,000 Taken From Lewisohn Estate. New York. A judgment against the government for $112,000 was obtained Friday in the United States circuit court in a suit brought to recover the war inheritance tax collected by the government from the estate of Leonard Leon-ard Lewisohn, the millionaire copper man who died in 1901. The estate at the time was valued at nearly $10,-000,000, $10,-000,000, and a war inheritance tax totaling to-taling $227,000 was imposed by the government and paid under protest. j Bryan May be Coaxed to Wear a Toga. Little Rock, Ark. Asked relative to a report that he would be a candidate for the United States senate to succeed suc-ceed Senator E. J. Burkett of Nebraska Ne-braska for re-election, Wlilliam J. Bryan said: "There is no foundation for the report re-port that I have decided positively to enter the race, and I have expressed myself as adverse to becoming a candidate. can-didate. We have a number of excellent excel-lent Democrats who are worthy of the place, and I would rather see one of them elected than myself. I will not say I will not under any circumstances circum-stances be a candidate, but I would prefer not to be." |