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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1959
Page
13
UP Damascus reports a Turkish mine raid in Syrian border area near the village of Tiel Elsham killing four Syrians. The incident underscores ongoing border tensions and casualties amid regional conflict.
In Van Wert Ohio a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old wired two dogs to railroad tracks and waited for a train. Danny Clem admitted the act in Juvenile Court. The judge ordered seven years in Ohio’s Boys Industrial School with no early release, while the older boy’s case proceeds in Paulding County.
PUTNAMVILLE Ind Fourteen inmates at the Indiana State Farm fell ill after consuming a drink made from antifreeze and methanol with mead. Five prisoners died within hours and more than a dozen remained hospitalized. Superintendent Walter Hock said jail drums in a garage contained the toxic mix and authorities sought to determine how it was smuggled or sold.
The Hague announced that 45 Papuans in west New Guinea died in a clash with islanders under Dutch administration while attempting to enter areas controlled by the Netherlands. Thirty four islanders were arrested.
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