Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-22
YOUNG MIR, DLAINR,S WIFE.
Family Troubles which is 10 Said VII
Culmimate I'm a Law Sule.

According to the New York Sssn, Gen. Martin T.
Mcmahon, Gen. Roger A. Pryor. and Col. Robert q
Ingersou, counsel for Mrs. Jas q. Blaine IT,, ore
about To begin suit at the instance OF their
client against her husbands parents ex-Secretary
Jas q. Blaine and Mrs Blaine, for damages In the
sum OF 100000 for alternating her husbands anec-
tons Young Mrs Blaine, the Sun says does not
sue for divorce, for abe is rigid Catholic, and her
ideas ON the subject Of divorce are In accordance
with the well-known rules Of the Church. Be.
sides, those who have the authority to speak for
her. say that she is still attached to her husband
and, above all things, desires reconciliation with
him she says that her husbands parents have
come between herself and HIM, 50 that ne mas DE-
serted her. refused to answer her letters and tele-
grams 1mplorng him to send her some token OF his
anection- and, IN word, has cast her on. MrS
blalneS resolution TO bring suit was, 1t Is SAID,
arrived at after her return last Thursday night
from Augusta, Me-, to which place she had gone
she mad been denied the privilege By her hus-
bands mother.
YOUNG Mr.. BLANRs MARRIAGE.
Miss Marie Nevins, daughter Of Col Richard
Nevins, Of Columbus OHIO, was married TO young
James G. Blaine september Q, 1885. The family Of
neither the bride nor the groom knew that the
marriage had been Contemplated until after it had
occurred. According to a story told by a friend OF
MRS Blaine,Jr., the groom after the marriage went
| to his parents In Augusta to break 10 them the
news and the bride went home and informed her
parents OF the new state OF affairs There was
Blaine is said to have written to his wife that
there was such bitter feeling on the part OF his
family that he feared that he and his little wife
would have to separate. Young Blame was with
out means and was depending ON his father. After
while the thing was patched up. Mr.. Blaine, ST.,
moved into a nat in New YORK. In iSs7 a child
was born TO them. When the Blaine family
returned from Europe, Mr.. and Mrs. james
Them. There Was trouble between 'y young MIS-
Blaine and her mother-in-law. Young Blame went
away with his father to take part In the campaign.
more serious, and the younger went back to New
York with her child. There she found herself un-
provided Tor. The fats and furniture were taken
from her, and 1t is said she was not provided with
money for her daily wants Frequent letters to
her husband and then TO his father got response
Last Tuesday, according to the story, young MIS-
Blaine, her baby, and nurse, and ner mother, MIS-.
Nevlns, went 10 Augusta The party drove In a
carriage from the rairod station 10 the Blaine
mansion, and on the way Mrs. Blaine saw the face
OF her husband at a hotel window. AT the Blame
residence Mrs Blaine, The elder said that her son
They waited until they believed young Blaine
had returned, but they were not permitted TO see
him. IL Is complained that they received very
cruel treatment. suit was then decided on.
WHAT THE LAWYER SAYS.
The Sun quotes General Martin T. Mcmahon,
one Of Mrs. james G. Blaine Jr.'s counsel as fol-
follows: 1--WE are going to begin a suit for Mrs
Blaine against Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Blaine ST.,
Tor 800 900 for alternating her husbands affections
Pryor and myself. We have not drawn up the
papers yet, and there Is no hurry about the case
we shall probably sue in the Supreme Court here,
serving Mr.. Blaine with the summons by publtca.
Ioh, ana making a personal service II we Can ind
him Within the borders OF the state. 1t is possible
though, that we may bring suit in Maine, though
we would be fearful there Of Blaine jury. Young
Mrs. Baine's Maine lawyer is the Hon. William L.
PUTNAM, the late Fisheries Commissioner and she
consulted 18th HIM when she was In Maine last
week. nave known Mrs Blaine since she was q
httie girl, said General Mcmahon, warmly, sand
Ten you, Sir, she has been shameIully abused.
Sue Is young woman or sweet and tender dispo-
sltlon and am certain that in this affair she is in
the right. In Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and
Wherever she has been she has been social favor
lte. she loves her husband now dearly and would
40 any thing TO straghten out matters again. It's
only another case Of mOther-in.law." A dispatch
10 the Philadelphia Times yesterday said that
James q. Blaine, IT,, was going 10 Europe.