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Show STRANGE CASE OF PARRICIDE. Inhumsn Act Committed- In French Dependency of Algeria. Quite extraordinary Is the parricide which Is reported from Algiers, thn capital of tho French dependency ot Algeria. Not very far from that town dwelt sn old man. upwards ol 111 years of axe. with three of bis sons, tha eldest of whom Is 76, while the youngest was tn him, at least, a Juvenile Juve-nile of 66 summers. The three aona felt aggrieved because their father bad not gone over to the majority and left hli property to them. He waa, however, atlll hale and hearty, ao they frequently exhorted him to divide hla estate between them, a cool propose Which be naturally enough stoutly de-cliheu de-cliheu to enierla'ln. A few evenings ago, aa the venerable patriarch waa returning homeward with a asule laden with dates, his eldest son went Out to meet, and after confronting hint, with an ultimatum which he reiefTted with contempt, nulled outer pistol and shot him through tha heart Tba Murderer Mur-derer and his brothers thea took flight' but they were captured after a hot chase. They would Inevitably have bean lynched If the gendarmes had not strained every nerve to protect them. I |