The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-16


when he was obliged to relinquish it on ac-
count Of his broken health. For several
years he was senior partner of the firm of
Fillebrown & Burton, -four dealers, and was
afterwards with the firm of Churchill,
Browns & Manson, and later engaged with
Sylvan Shurtleff in the manufacture of boots
and shoes. Mr.. Fillebrown was at one time
very prominent Mason, and had occupied
many Of the offices in that order. He also
took an absorbing interest in temperance
matters, and was an earnest worker in that
cause. Mr.. Fillebrown leaves widow, two
macr!ed daughters and son.
Walker Blaine.
WASHINGTON, January 15-Walker brame
Examiner Of Claims of the State Depart
ment, and eldest son of the Hon. James G..
Blaine, Secretary Of State, died at $40 this
evening, at the family residence. He had
been i'll only few days. and his death is a
sudden and severe shock to an unusually
large circle of friends, who were not aware
that lie was dangerously i'll until this morn
ing, while the family. who were all greatly
devoted to him, are Frustrated with grief.
Although not feeling we'll all last week, he
went to the department each day until Fri
day, when he became much worse, and was
compelled to 60 home and take tG his bed.
He made light Of his illness and thought his
recovery matter of few days. The Sec
retary gave dinner party Monday night, to
number of people prominent in official
and society walks. Mr.. Walker Blaine was
then feeling so much better that he sat up
some time, chatting with the guests, and af-
forwards walked about the house. :, He
caught an additional cold, which quickly set
tied on his lungs and developed into acute
pneumonia last night. This morning his
condition was so alarming that all the i'm
mediate relatives of the family were hastily
summoned home by telegraph. Mr.. Blaine
was delirious most of the day, with exceed
ingly high temperature and painfully labored
respiration.
There were with him at the time of his
death only his two unmarried sisters, Harri-
ct and Margaret, though all the family ex-
cept Mrs: Coppinger and James g. Blaine,
Jr., were in the house at the time. The end
was painless, life passing away while the
gruder, the. family physician, furnished to-
night statement of Mr.. Blaine's sickness
He says: walker Blaine was attacked by
la grippe Friday evening last, the malady
being ushered in by chill. followed by high
fever. Severe catarrhal symptoms immedi-
ately attacked both lungs, and these contin-
ued through Saturday and Sunday, but in an
ameli0rated condition. Monday, an improve
ment in the left lung was noticed, though
pneumonia congestion was present in the
right lung. Tuesday, all the symptoms be-
came aggravated, and well developed pneu-
monia supervened in the right lung, accom-
panied by high fever and delirium, which
continued until his death. which occurred
almost with premonition, due to pulmonary
effuStOn."
Mr.. Blaine, while comparatively strong,
had not entirely recovered from the accident
in the spring, by which his leg was broken,
and from an attack Of malarial fever, from
which he suffered during the autumn. DIR.
Magruder had In consultation with him DIR.
Joseph Faber johnson.
News of the death quickly became known.
and many friends called during the evening
to express sympathy. President and Mrs.
Harrison called very soon after the death,
and Vice President and Mrs. Morton soon
afterwards Justices Harlan and Gray of
the Supreme Court, and most Of the men,
bers of the Maine delegation, Representative
Hit and many others well known in official
and social life called. No arrangements for
the funeral will be made until tomorrow, the
family being too much overcome to give
thought to the burial as yet.
Walker Blaine was born in Augusta, Me-,
May 8, 1855, and first came to Washington to
live in 1867, five years after his fathers cleo
tion to Congress. He graduated from Yale
New York, two years later. He then went
TO st. Paul, Mimi, where for two years he
was in the law office of Cushman K. Davis,
the present Senator from Minnesota. He
came to Washington in 1881, and was ap-
pointed Third Assistant Secretary of State.
In the winter of 1872, he went to South
America with Mr.. Trescott, on special mis-
sion, to use the good offices of the United
States TO- bring about a settlement of the
troubles between Chill and Peru. ae was
charge d'affaires in Bolivia during several
months. Late in 1882. he was appointed as
slstant counsel of the Court of Alabama
Claims, which office he held until 1885. He
lived In Chicago from 1886 to 16SS. returning
to this city January l, 1889 He assisted his
father in the work which devolved upon
him when he became Secretary of State.
March Both last he was nominated by Presi-
dent Harrison Examiner of Claims of the
state Department, aud as such was the legal
adviser OF the department and the cOnhden-
tial representative of the Secretary. He
had assisted his father greatly throughout
his political career, and was most closely
and intimately associated with him in all his
plans. enjoying not only the great affection
OF his father but his complete confidence as
we'll. he was young man of marked at
talnments. great tact and decided ability.
He was highly respected by those who knew
him in official and social life, many Of whom
predicted that he would have achieved an
even higher name for himself but for his de-
knew him the best esteemed him the most
The regard in which ne was held was shown
when his nomination to his last office was
sent into the Senate, that body, ON motion of
Senator Edmunds, doing HIM the very unas-
ual honor of confirming the nomination at
once, without reference to a committee.
John c. Ridlon.
Mr.. John C. Ridlon, of West Paris, Me-,
for a number of years representing Shaw,
Hammond & Carney on the line of the
Graad Trunk railroad, died at his home
Tuesday. after an illness of few days.
Charles q. Danforth.
BOSTON, January 15.-Charles. Blanchard
Danforth, for more than quarter of a CEN
tury city editor of the Boston Herald, died
this morning. of pneumonia, at the age Of AS
years. Mr.. Danforth was born in Nashua,
N. III.
Notes.
David Morgan, of Lubec, Me-, was found
dead in the forcastle of the schooner Carrie
K. Sayward at Gloucester yesterday. The
cause of death is unknown.