Seek O'malley's Release

Chicago, Dec. 29.- The efforts of skilled Iawyers, political influence, the prayers of personal friends, and the promise of a mint of money as security wJll be the pressure brought to bear upon the courts to secure the release on bail of Alderman Thomas J. l. Malley, noiv conflned in the county jail, indicted for the murder of Gus Colliander, election night of 1894. Friends declare that $300,000, if necessary, in gilt-edged securities, can be raised to guaranty the return of the alderman in court when wanted. His release may be asked for on a writ of habeas corpus. W. S. Forreat has been retained as his attorney. The state declares that all such efforts will be in vain. Ill-health will also be urgcd as a reason for his release. Startling developments are promised. It is intimated that O'Malley was the master mind which planned the raid on the Nineteenth precinct of the i third ward at 117 Oak street. Some clare that the prisoner's desire to have ' his relative, ex-Senator John F. O'Malley, ie-elected was the motive which spurred the alderman on to deeds of violence. Fiften Texans Cut to Pieces. Key West, Fla., Dec. 29.- Passengere from Cuba say that Havana officials are jubilant over the news of a SpanI ish success reported at Claao, a small town a few miles north of Pinar del Rio city. A detachment from the "Lone Star" company of Texas sharpshooters, numbering but flfteen men, were corralled by two Spanish squadrons, belonging to General Melquizo's command, and cut to pieces, they refusing to a man to a surrender, even with such odds against them. Piistem's Rematas Moved. Paris, Dec. 28.- The remains of Professor Louis Pasteur, the eminent bacteriologiat, who died Sept. 28, lSíí'a, were removed Saturday from the Cathedral of Notre Dame to the Pasteur instituto, where they -ere received by a of distinguished men, including Premier Meline and severa! well-known men of Great Britain. President Faure and General Billot, the minister of war, was represented at the ceremony. SUM'ifle of a ISanker. Chicago, Dec. 29.- Otto Wasmansdorff, senior partner in the bank of "Wasinansdorff & Heinemann, whicll collapsed through the failure of the National Bank of Illinois, killed himseli Sunday noon at his home, 149 Cleveland avenue, by shooting himseir through the temple with a revolver. Employés :Jail ■ Happy, Chicago, Dec. 28. - Siegel, Cooper & Co. made every one of the 615 men in thelr employ a Christmas present in the shaps of a $1,000 life insurance policy, paid up for one year. The risks wem written by the Mutual Life Insuranct company of New York, and the paid uj, premium for this year cost the flrm exactiy $15,000.