Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-19

for the use of the City Guards and Light In
faut;y. After the adjournment of the battalion
meeting, Company Il was ordered into line, and
communication was read from the committee
having in charge the arrangements for the exhi-
btion drill at Music hall, of the Montgomery
| Guard, OF Boston, inviting Company B toado
escort duty for the visitors. 1t is probable that
| the invitation will be accepted
| AID FOR CHICAGO AND THE NORTHWEST
The additional subscriptions to the fund for the
sufferers by the great fires at Chicago and in the
northwest, are as follows:
Citizens of Prince Saundersv' leCOng
ton, 2l6 90 church and So
| Employees of + ciety, "a %
Cleveland Co, 202 % Worcester steam
| Lincoln House, 1877 boiler works &
| Iateum HOrgan employees, so
and employees, l5S % Saunders Saun-
| Employees Of Rice. dersville, so
Barton Co, 1877 Saunders cotton
| Clarendon Harris, 100 mill 80
| e Cleveland, 100 Employees of W
| Geo NJ Rice taddi- Jourdan, 81
| tionaD, for the NJ Kendall 20
sufferers inAIich Joseph Boy den, 20
igan, etc, 100 Henchman, Is
Thjs Smith & Co Employees -
and employees, 70 White, 10
| VIM Lincoln, % Mrs NJ + Dunn. 10
EW Wheeler, lO
| Cash, 81; Fay VIM Place, L b Babcock,
| 80 eaCN; cash. n; cash, Edward Manner, 80 eacni
James Brastow, a d Estabrook, John Milton, Z
Estabrook Thos hallows, Jas Readen. Thos Nc
| Mann, Il Jennison, Charles Moran, 81 each a
little girl, Freddy Harlow, cash, Iilton Marshall,
Oliver Arnold, Charles Hindle, A ID Pratt, w Ar
mold, p Cunningham, Charles COnnen, cash, 81
each; Frank Haskell so cents
Amount previously reported. ...........S3 1872 So
| subscriptions ON Wednesday. ........... l,7O4 70
Total amount subscribed at NJ Oct Is. $50 497 IA
CHAs. b. WHITING, Treasurer.
A meeting Of the subscribers TO the Chicago
| fund was held at Washburn hall last evening,
| Hon. P. Emory Aldrich presiding, and S. Sails
| bury, Jr., acting as secretary. Joseph H. Walk
En- Esq, stated the great sutlerings and needs OF
the unfortunate people of Chicago and of the de
yastatcd portions of the states of Michigan. Min
nesota and Wisconsin. Joseph Mason, Esq,
| hoped the money above the $50, 900 pledged to
the mayor of Chicago, would he given, in part,
ut least, TO the sufferers in other places in the
west. Messrs P. L. Moen, Albert Toman, aud
Stephen Salisbury, also favored giving the execu-
| tive committee power to act in such manner, and
the following resolutions, offered by Mr. Mocn,
were unanimously adopted:
| Whereas since the meeting of citizens in be-
half OF Chicago, details Of great CONGREGATIONS in
| Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have reached
| Us, by which it appears that towns and settlements
have been destroyed, and their inhabitants reduced
to dcstituion; and,
| aid fund, and Others who propose to contribute,
have signed their desire that said fund be regard
| ed as general fund, from which appropriations
may be made for the relief of any of these stricken
| places at the northwest
| Resolved, that the committee OF forty-fve be
thOriZed and requested TO regard the fund collected
under their supervision general fund for the re-
lief of sufferers by ally of these great conagratlons
and that they be fully empowered TO apportion and
hn opnn in uPh q u
ment will best carry out the intentions and present
| wishes of the donors.
Several of the large subscribers signified their
desire 10 have their own subscriptions devoted
| in accordance with the aboJe resolutions.
| The executive committee give notice that
clothing for the sufferers by the western fires,
including those in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, would he thankfully received. Do
nations should be sent to the Office of Strong &
Rogers, coal dealers, 416 Main street.
The Cherry Valley Murder-Verdict of
the COPOMer's JuPy-MIchaeI Dunvey
Charged with the Crime.
The whole of yesterday was spent by Coroner
j. NJ. Rice in examining witnesses in the inyes-
LEGATION Of the murder Of John Stack, whose
body was found beside the road between Cherry
Valley and the reservoir, Tuesday morning. A
dozen or more witnesses were questioned, and
those tcstitying agreed on the main points, with
the exception of a small portion OF the evidence
which came from the man to whom the circum-
| stances pointed as guilty, and that given by
| James Nlarden, who was evidently so drunk
| during the first three days of the week that he
couldn't clearly distinguish Monday from Tues
day in trying to account for himself. The eX.
animation was held at the police office.
The witnesses from whom the convincing evil
dcncc comes were Ignorant ielow-laborers of
the suspected, and testified so nearly alike all
through that reproduction of the evidence
would be more tedious than comprehensive,
| The story of the whole affair, as gathered from
Il dozen or more witnesses examined, may be
reduced to the following account, which seems
to be the only probable explanation:
1t seems that the workmen on the reservoir
were paid off on Monday and on the evening
Of that day five of them who boarded al the board
ing house near the works, viz: Michael Dunvey,
James Marden, John Whalan, Timothy Martin
and Daniel Singleton, went ON Il spree togeth-
er to the village Of Cherry Valley, and, as they
all agree, went to the house OF Michael Bulger,
and drank heer until ten or eleven o'clock, with
the exception Of Singleton, who left the
party and went home at nine o'clock. AZ
| ter leaving Buger's, at ten or eleven O'Clock,
the other four started round the village singing
and qnaueng, and at about midnight Dunyey
went to John Nelans house, called him up,
and got bottle of whiskey IA quart -
which was turned into the party and kept
them going for a while longer Marden got so
drunk that he left the party and got to the
boarding house somehow-neither himself nor
any of the others seemed to know how. His
eyes were both blackened, and his general APP
pearance indicated that he had been fighting at
a recent date; but exactly when, where or with
whom is question the answers to which were
Of a most dstractng and confusing nature; but
it was made tolerably clear that he was at home
thrashng about before the murder was com
mitted.
This left Michael Dunvey, John Whalen and
| Timothy Martin together, and the next that is
definitely found of their whereabouts, by the tes-
timony, they were at the CROSSROADS by Samuel
Hodges house, where they were joined by John
Stack, who had been loaing around the village
several days, drinking, as ment oned yesterday,
he having been discharged from the reservoir
works several months ago. Stack was about as
drunk as the rest of the party, and
had a bottle of whiskey with him. They
drank again all round and started up the road.
Whalen and Martin both say that Dunvey and
Stack stopped and began disputing when they
were by the woods before coming to the top OF
the hill beyond Hodges house, and they (Wha-
len and Martin) went on and left them, suppos-
ing that both were coming along home. This