Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
August Dettmas, Of Bay City, viii
spend ninety days in jail for cruelty beat
ing his child with O strap.

Bheik near Damascus, by II. w. COttrell,
of Detroit, for Senator Palmer, and named
after one of the rivers spoken of in Scrip
ture, "Pharpar and Abana" -Abana, the
Arab colt, is dead. He was the most
promising steed that Mr.. Cottrell could
find in all the Sultan's dominions, though
armed with a special irman to explore
the valleys, green pastures, and sweet
waters of the opulent East. Much bar
gaining, after the Oriental way, meshal-
lah, bismalla, and backsheesh finally
prevailed upol the turbaned sheik and
his wild-eyed family to part with the
colt. They yept at the parting and tore
their boards in anguish, and would fain
have stolen him away from the Feringhi
unbsliever had not the terror of
the Sultan's frman and the Ameri-
can Consuls vigilance prevented. Cot
tell led him overland across the Jeb-
el-Barouk, and through the mountain
passes skirting great Lebanon itself, un-
til Beyrout was reached. Here Abana
was transferred to steamer and looked
French line steamer carried him to Mar
seilles, and from there to the Province of
La Perche, where he made the acquaint-
ance of the steeds derived from crusading
ancestry, and dating their entry into
France from the days of Godfrey of Bouil-
Ion and the great Sultan Saladin. From
France Abana came with his new COM
panions to the land of the free and the
home of the brave, tenderly cared for
and petted even more than he would have
been had he remained an inmate of the
tent of his Bedouin master. Abana
suffered with distemper more than the
Percherons. He found friends and ten
er care at Senator Palmer's place, and
recognized above all others the voice of
Cottrell. Doubtless this was because of
the tender Arabic phrases which Cottrell
would ejaculate-words that he had picked
up from the horsemen ol the barbaric East
and which had q sound of home to Abana,
for withal the colt was homesick, and the
silvery Arabic had far pleasanter sound
than the Anglo Saxon of the stables. A
taxidermist will preserve and set up the
skin of Abana, and endeavor to retain the
grace of figure which he showed during
life. Hundreds of people who have seen
and admired the beautiful Arabian, whose
coat was black as jet. will regret with
Senator Palmer and Mr.. Cottrell his un-
timely death.
The State Teachers Institute for
Wayne County, to be held Aug. l3 to II,
at Wyandotte, promises to be one of the
most interesting and pro6table institutes
ever held in the county. Able instructors
will have charge of the daily sessions,
while the evenings will be devoted to
lectures on scientific subjects. DR.. j. p.
Reed, County Secretary, will give teach
ers two per cent. credit on their certifi-
Gates for each days attendance.
The reported murder of Julius Bailey
in 1880 by Doc Andrews, a farmer near
Baldwin, Lake County, who has been ar
rested, is false. The young man in ques-
tion is now living in Chicago, and for sew
eral years up TO 1886 drove a baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo for an omnibus line.
His brother, James Bailey, has sent this
information to the prosecuting attorney
and Sheriff at Baldwin, Lake County,
where Andrews is now in Jail.
"A bright little girl, aged about 8 years,
got off the Grand Rapids train at jackson,
and, having no place to go, she was taken
to the city hospital. Attached to string
around her neck was a card stating that
she was on her way to Coldwater, but hel
fare was only paid as far as Jackson. TIC
Chiof of Police Winney and Overseel
Coltrin she stated that her name was
Maggie Briger, but she had been living
with II. +. Wright in Grand Rapids, but
she could not tell on what street Tc
0verseer Coltrin she said that her papa
drank and whipped her mamma; that he
said he could not afford to keep her (tht
girl any longer and compelled her mamma
TO put her on the train to go to Coldwater
Mr.. Coltrin is of the opinion that the child
has been kidnapped by some one and this
means was taken to get her off theil
hands. He will keep her at the Hospital
until the matter is thoroughly investi-
gated and, if possible, her parents are
found.
Charles r. Richardson, a retail boot
and shoe dealer doing business in De
troit, Pontiac, Bay City and Lansing, ha'
made an assignment The liabilities viii
reach $50, 900 and the assets about tn,
same.
"A very singular accident occurred a
Cusic Lake the other day, the result o
which is little short of miraculous. Mani,
Thurston and Ed Shaw were attempting
to turn around with carriage on the cas-
bank of the lake when the vehicle wa
overturned and its occupant rolled dow
an incline of fifty feet to the waters edge
The horse, carriage and oil made severa
revolutions in their descent, but fortu
nately escaped uninjured.
Robert Worthington, of Cincinnati
went to Detroit, rushed into the Wayn
Hotel barber-shop, seized a razor, and Gu
his throat fatally. This was his thir,
attempt and the fourth similar case o
, throat cutting in public places in Detroi
within week.
At Freeland the other day dog fright
, ened the neighborhood by running abou
t the village streets with a woman's hand ii
J its mouth. Afterward il was learned tn