The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-03
BLAINE AGAIN IN GRIEF.
His Eldest Daughter Yields to the
Dart of Death.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Mrs. Coppinger,
wife of Lieut.. Col. John j. Coppinger,
Eighteenth Infantry, died at 5:27 o'clock
this morning, of congestion of the brain, at
her fathers residence, the old Seward
mansion, on Madison place. She was un-
conscious for hours before her death, which,
it was known at midnight, could not be
members of the family were present at the
last moment. Col. Coppinger arrived here
at o'clock yesterday morning, and was
with his wife from that time until she
passed peacefully away.
BLAINE's FOURTH SORROW IN A MONTH.
This is the fourth bereavement in the
family of Secretary Blaine within the past
thirty-five days, and is the second one of
his children to die within that time fro m
illness brought on by attacks of the grip.
Mrs. sCoppinger was first taken i'll with an
attack of the prevailing epidemic in De-
cember. She recovered and came on to
Washington to atte ld Mr.. Walker Blaine's
funeral A relapse occurred, and brain
trouble, from which Mrs. Coppinger had
suffered at various times, soon appeared.
She was dangerously ill, but showed inn
provement on Friday, her system respond
ing well to medical treatment.
THE OLD TROUBLE RETURNS.
On Saturday, however, her brain trouble
became greatly aggravated, and she became
gradually weaker until death occurred
Surgeon Heger, United States army, DIR. H.
C. Yarrow and DIR. q. Lloyd Magruder,
were with her the entire night, but both
mind and body refused to respond to their
efforts to prolong her life.
Mrs. Coppinger was 80 years of age, and
married Col. Coppinger about seven years
| ago. She leaves two children, both boys.
| She had been in delicate health nearly ell
her life, and her studies at school were fire.
quently interrupted on this account.
BECOMING USED TO GRIEF.
The Blaines have become SO accustomed
| to grief that they bear the death of Mrs
Coppinger, which occurred this morning,
very quietly. All day long their friends
and acquaintances, from the President and
| calling to express their sympathy. Most of
them, Of course, only left their cards, but
the President and some others saw tho
| family and found them remarkably COM
posed. Mrs. Coppinger's death was really
almost as sudden as her brother Walkers,
| for, like him, she had appar entity recovered
| from her illness and had gotten out, having
been making calls last Tuesday, when she
visited nu mber of old friends. She was
very popular here, though 80 retiring that
she did not make friends readily.
HER RELIGIOUS LEANINGs.
Mrs. Coppinger was a member of the
Presbyterian church, like her father and
mother, until marriage, when, her hus-
band being a prominent Roman Catholic,
she joined the Roman Catholic church, the
church of her grandmother, which is still
the church of her uncle, Robert Blaine and
his family. Hence it is that her funeral is
to occur not in the Church of the Covenant
(Presbyterian), where her father has a
pew and where her mother attends,
but at st. Matthew's Roman Catholic
church, where a requiem mass will be cele-
brated probably by Cardinal Gibbons on
Tuesday morning. Father Tom Sherman,
son of Gen. Sherman, will probably assist
at the services. The internent will be in
Oak Hill cemetery.
BLAINES REMAINING CHILDREN.
Secretary Blaine's remaining children are
Emmons, and James G. Jr., and Margaret,
and Hattie, the latter not yet out in society.
As soon as he can get away from the state
department routine. Secretary Blaine will
probably take Mrs. Blaine away for time.
They are, of course, affected by the de-
pressing influence of the sad house, leaving
out of sight the superstitious theories about
its fatality