The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1891-07-18
TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION.
John Manning Finds HIS Wife and
Daughter.


A dozen old children were ut play
on tbirtieth street, just opposite the
station House, on Thursday afternoon,
when well-dressed man of about so
years of age stepped up to young
woman who was watching them and,
patting her on the cheek, asked the
above question.
The young woman shrank back and,
looking Indignantly at the man, re-
piled:
mo, sir | don't know you. You
are too familiar"
Then she turned and walked to the
stoop of No. HAY, where several
women were sitting.
The girl did not notice that the man
was following her. aud going up to
one haired woman told how the
man had insu.ed her.
The woman looked up and then
they both saw the stranger standing
not three feet away.
He was intently watching Mrs.K
Manning, the girls mother, to whom
she had gone to make complaint.
my Godl Can it be?" exclaimed
Mrs. Manning, as her eyes met those
of the stranger.
Eyes" said he, jumping to her side;
sit is I, Kate"
"Oh, john" exclaimed the woman.
1t was too much for her and she
tainted.
The man helped carry her into the
two little rooms on the ground floor,
where Mrs. Manning and her daugh-
ter Jennie made their home.
Jennie gazed on in open-eyed Won
der on the scene, while the neighbors
looked on 10 amazement.
81 am your father" said the man
when he had placed the woman's
form on the sofa, addressing Jennie.
Mrs. Manning recovered her senses
in q short time and. calling Jennie to
her side, corroborated the strangers
statement.
II never remember seeing YOU"
said Jennie, who at first could not
realize what had occurred.
81 knew you and your mother; |
never forgot her, exclaimed he.
81 always told Jennie that you had
been killed. explained Mrs. Manning
between her sobs.
The story of the disappearance of
Charles Manning has perhaps been
forgotten by old-timers.
Manning kept furniture store on
| Nineteenth street and Seventh avenue
at one time.
Nineteen years ago he disappeared
mysteriousIy from his home, leaving
bis wife and Jennie who was then but
six months old. Mrs. Manning ran
the store for time, but finally sold
out and went to Chicago to her aunt.
Soon her money gave out and she
was obliged to go out to work by the
day in order to support herself and
Jennie.
The years rolled by, aud, not hear
ing any intelligence of her missing
husband, she naturally concluded that
he was dead.
Six years ago she and Jennie moved
to East Thirtieth street, and about a
year ago they took up their present
quarters.
After the joyous outbreak Mr.. Man.
ming explained his absence.
It appears that his relatives did not
like his wife, and had several times
endeavored to separate them.
In August, 1879, he left home to go
to Brooklyn, and on the way took sew
eral drinks and made a number of ac-
quaintances.
One of the latter was preparing for
cruise on a whaler, which was GO
ing to start from New Bedford, and
he asked Manning to make the trip.
Stupefed by drink he did so, and
the next he knew he was on board and
off to sea.
The vessel returned three years later
and Manning repaired to this city.
He found his old home torn down
and went to the house of friend,
who told him that both his wife and
baby had died year after his disap-
pearance, in Chicago.
He was broken-hearted and jour
neyed TO Chicago, but could find no
trace of them, as Mrs. Manning's aunt,
to whom she had gone had died a
year previous.
He then went to New Salem and
went on another three years cruise.
After it was over he went to Cali
fornia, and next he took up resi-