Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-19
A LIFE ROMANCE.

H0U a Lost Nephe,c Was F0und-The STIR,
Told About q HelJ-Kno,os Citizen of Fitts
bur0-A Fortunate Telegraphic DisDate1
and It's Strsngs Results.
[Pittsburg Telegraph
There are few men who have not met with
some romantic or unusual experience in the
course of their lives, and fewer still who have
not at some period or other been shown that
the French proverb, Nothing ever happens
but the impossible and unexpected" has q
great deal at truth in it. The even tenor of
the way of some of US is invaded in the most
ruthless manner, every now and then, by
some event which was not only totally unlock
ed for, but was regarded as ont of the limit
OF possibilities A good example of these
freaks of destiny was told the Ielegruph a
short time agoby Mr.. John w. Haney, the
wen-known transportation man and shipper
and handler of freight.
About twenty three years ago Mr.. Haney
lived in Ohio. His wife died while he re-
sided there, and he came to Pittsburg short
~ afterward. He went into business here
and gradually began to build up the fine
business which he now controls. Not lone
after his departure from Ohio his brother
some relatives, leaving her son, boy four or
five years old with some friends in the
Buckeye State. She had not been in the CITY
long before shebecame ill and died rather
suddenly. Mr.. Haney at once went after his
nephew, and, or arriving at the little village
where the family had lived In whose care the
boy had been left, he found. to his con-
sternation, that they had sold out all their
things and gone further west. "Gone
west, in those days, meant very different
thing from what it does now; and, as nobody
knew where the family had gone, search for
them was like looking for fve-cent piece
that had dropped in the Atlantic Ocean. In
spite of all diicouragements Mr.. Haney
spent considerable time and money in try
ing to discover the boy, and did not give it
up entirely until several years had elapsed.
Not a single trace could be found of the little
fellow, and at last he was almost forgotten
and became rs one who had long been dead
as far as MIR. Harley was concerned. About
q month ago merchant III Cairo, ILL.,, order
cd large consignment of axes in the East,
and instructed MIR. Haney not to send them
through unless hs could get special rates of
freight. The rivsr began going down, and
treights advanced SO a number of kilograms
passed between tie gentleman in Cairo and
Mr.. Haney. Oneday after these kilograms
, had Dbl, boon sent, dA2atoh was received from
Who Is John ". Hans, g incinna Is ssiig@
he Qthe operator) had an unc1s' q fs:tat name
here, whom he had not seen for great
many years. The dispatch was shown to
Mr.. Haney, and Investigation disclosed the
fact that the lost nephew had been found at
last. The boy had lost all recollection of his
Pittshurg relatives except his uncle's name,'
and when it passed through his office it re-
vived the latent mem9ries, and the discovery
followed. The nephew is night manager of
the Cincinnati Telegraph office, and about a
month ago he came to Pittsburg to visit his
uncle, who naturally was delighted with the
singular result of his kilograms in regard to
that consignment of axes.