Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
HAPPY REPUBLICANS,
A General Jubilee at Wash
ington Over the Returns
From Little Rhody.
GROWERS BOOM CHECKED,
Improbability of Congressman's
Being Total Abstainer.
SALACI0US SCANDAL IN THE AIR,
Threats Of q Lynching Bee if the Schneider
Jury AcquitR
The HERO OF A DELIBERATE MURDER
GROWERS BOOM CHECKED.
sALACIOUS SCANDAL IN THE AIR.
Threats Of a Lynching Bee if the Schneider
Jury Acquits
THE HERO OF A DELIBERATE MURDER
ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC LETTER.
BUREAU OF THE DIsPArCH,
WARHINGTnN ID @ Anril

Among Republicans in Congress and the
departments there is great rejoicing on &C
count of the result of the Rhode Island
elections, accepted, as they are, as
harbinger of a reaction in favor of "tht
Grand Old Party" In the House and Sen
ate to-day there was general congratula
tion that the tremendous efforts of the
Cleveland Democrats to capture the Gov
ernorship had failed.
If any element is pleased equally with the
Republicans it is that of the anti-Cleveland
Democrats who point to the fact that Cleve.
lands personal, financial and political in.
terests in 'little Rhody," and his presence
and arguments on the rostrum apparently
had no favorable effect in the direction Of
puritanic reform that the ex-President is
supposed to represent in politics. Senator
Hill was much sought after to-day BY in
quirers of all sorts, and, while he refused to
be interviewed on the subject, it was i'm
possible not to see that he was more than
pleased with the victory of the Repub-
icans
A Possible Setback to C1eveland's Boom.
1t is recognized by all Democrats that
Cleveland, wisely or unwisely, was induced
to make the issue in great a measure a per-
sonal one and that the result, while posi-
bly, not involving any permanent negative
influence, must give at least temporary
setback to the "boom" which has been
growing stronger and stronger ever since
the Hill tidal wave set in on its rapid ebb.
Cleveland's friends are not at all dis
couraged. They say that while Democratic
success would have given a great impetus
to bis candidacy, Democratic failure cannot
injure him, for the reason that Rhode
Island is known to be a sure Republican
State in Presidential year.
Probably no sillier act was ever known
in the House of Representatives than that
of Mr.. Funston, of Kansas, this afternoon,
when he rose to a personal explanation to
refute the charges contained in an article in
the New York Voice, temperance paper,
which gave list of persons which it de-
nominated Congressional tipplers" The
incompleteness of the article may be
realized when it is known that the name of
no Pennsylvania was included in the list
Mr.. Funston seemed greatly aggrieved that
he should have been called tippler at the
bar of the House restaurant, and excul-
pated himself with SO much vehemence that
an audible smile rippled around the hall.
Bad Box for a Prohibition Race.
Of course every one knew that Funston's
concern was aroused by the fact that his
district is one of the strong Prohibition
ones in the Prohibition State of Kansas
Other gentlemen who were included in the
list, representing communities less vocifer-
Gus in their morality or their denunciation
of human thirst, did not think the publica-
tion worth notice For instance, Mr.
Bourke Cochran, who represents a portion
of the city from which the paper in ques-
tlon is published, was named as one of the
tipplers, though he VOWS he has not taken a
drink of intoxicating liquor for more than
IL years.
1t may as well be stated here that the
Congressman who does not take drink oc-
cssionally at the House or Senate restau-
rant is rare exception. Thev drink as
they eat when they feel like it. Some of
them who make temperance speeches at
home are the most convivial in Washing
ton. There is little hypocrisy here. No
one but representative of a paper like the
one in question would think it worth the
while to mention Congressional tippling,
which means, take it, drinking at leisure
or pleasure.
A Sad Scandal in the Air.
The agitation of this matter to-day has
brought to my ears scandal which NAV
well be mentioned, even by those persons
and newspapers least given to gossip, be-
cause it is likely to ring throughout the
whole country within few days. 1t is es-
pecially Legitimate" to mention it in view
of the space given in the press of the whole
world to the nauseating details of the
Deacon scandal, the Drayton-B -Borrowe
affair and the wretched gossip in which Mrs
the Southern colony" in New York, are the
chief figures, and which threatens to result
in an old-time Virginia duel.
A temperance hotel, conducted by most
estimable leader of the w. c. T U, is the
scene of this Washington affair." The gen.
tlemau is a prominent member of one of
the Houses of Congress. The lady, with
most profound regret be it said, is the wife |
Of one OF the most prominent ministers of |
Washington. The husband suspected f1irta- |
tions employed detectives, the Congress-
man and the lady were watched and |
caught A few know of it now, but it is |
flying about on the wings of the wind, and |
it will require little less than miracle to |
prevent a public scandal, which may be /
called a sort of inverted Beecher-Tilton |
affair, the wronged man in this instance |
being the clergyman. The latter is a grand |
man, full of charity for human frailty, and |
is disposed, for the sake of his calling and |
of his wife, to silence all gossip, but the
affair has already got far beyond him, and |
the assurance that it will be of national |
knowledge within few days, if the miracle
does not intervene leads me to speak of it
now with hesitation and regret.
Close of a Celebrated Murder Trial
The closing speeches of counsel were
made to-day, in the most sensational mur-
der trial that ever occurred in Washington,
with the exception of that of the assassin
Guiteau. Even that scarcely aroused the
Interest of this one, especially among
women.
On January 81, Howard Schneider. a
young draughtsman and architect, brother
of a phenomenally successful speculative
architect and real estate man, G. Frank
Schneider, shot and killed in the street in
front of their home, his wife, Amy Schneider.
and her young brother, Frank Hamlink.
Howard Schneider and Miss Hamlink were
married last October. For
some time the marriage was concealed |
Then 1t reached the ears of Colonel Ham,
link, the father. There was a quarrel. a
denunciation of Schneider by the Hamlinks.
an apparent reconciliation, and Schneider
was invited to come and live with his wife
at the fine residence of the Hamlinks.
Schneider proved to be unwelcome and
unendurable and was summarily "fred"
from the house. On the 21st of January he
waylaid his wife, her brother and her sister
as they were returning from church, and
almost without a word killed the brother
and sent three bullets into the body of his
wife, from the effect of which she died
within day or two.
The scene of the murder was on q street
in front of an elegant house, one of block
of the finest in the city, all built by Frank
and this one within two or three
doors Of the residence purchased from