The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-06-20
BLAINE'S AFFLICTION
The Sudden Death of His Son En-
mons at Chicago.
WORK IN Els FATHERS INTEREst i,

IT Is Said, Produced the Disease
Which Resulted in His Untimeiy
End-A brief Career Filled with
Promise-Iis Parents Completely
Frustrated.
CHICAGO, June 20.-Emmons Blaine,
son of ex-Secretary Blaine, died on Sat
urday. Blood poisoning, the result of
inflammation of the bowels, was the
cause. The fact of young MIR. Blaine's
death was kept concealed for some time
after he had actually passed away, the
object being to reach the father first
with some gentle intimation of the sad
news. 1t was not until about quarter
of an hour prior to the fatal moment
that the least intimation that Mr.. Blaine
was in dangerous condition became
known, and then it was only to a few.
Young Mr.. Blaine was notable fig
ure i'll the exciting scenes at Minneapo-
lis. He took the result greatly to heart,
and was confined to his room shortly
after his return from the north.
During the convention he seemed in
perfect health, and no one who heard of
his sudden passing away was more
shocked than those who saw him par
ticipating in caucuses, early and late,
night and day, in his fathers interest.
1t is thought possible by many that the
strain and excitement at Minneapolis,
followed by the keen disappointment ct
the outcome, had not little to do with
the physical prostration ensuing. The
water at Minneapolis also affected him,
as it did great many others.
The. death scene took place in the
great brown stone mansion of the Nc
Cormick family on Rush street. Mrs.
Emmons Blajpe and her 2-year-old son,
Mccormick Blaine. were the only per-
soEs present beside Mrs. Cyrus McCor-
mick, young Mrs. Blaine's mother.
Death came so swiftlythat there was
not time to summon the other members
of the McC~mick family, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. q. Mccormick, who were in the
house at the time.
Ex-Secretary and Mrs. Blaine, accom-
panied by their daughter Hattie, arrived
this afternoon. They were taken at once
in private carriage to the Mccormick
homestead, where lies the body of their
son. To the newspaper men who got
hurried glimpse of the afflicted parents
as they walled to the carriage both
presented picture of utter prostration.
Eminons Blaine was the second son of Mr..
and Mrs James G. Blaine, and was apout 70
years of agc. He graduated from Harvard
college, and eyeR wlilo he was a stuSent took
great interest in politics, going up in the
northern part of Maine and making political
speeches to the lumbermen OF those sections.
When he graduated he went to Chicago and
entered tho service of the Chicago and North
western railroad a clerk In thS freight de-
partmcnt. He promoted Se)m time to
time and was sent out into Iowa as freight
agent, having charge of n small division of the
railroad. Ho WIS then promoted TO assistant
general freight agent in Chicago. He resigned
that post to take tho position Of assistant
president Of the West Virginia Central, of
which ex-senator Davis, OF Virginia, was then
president. He remained there for two or three
years, when he became assistant general man
ager nf the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, with
headquarters in Chicago, and he was occupy
ing that position at tho time Of his death. He
married Miss Amelio Mccormick, of Chicago,
u daughter of Cyrus Mccormick, inventor Of
tho reaping machine.