The herald., 1897-05-07

oecial service will take place, during
which the Rev. j. Mccarthy of River
side will preach on the subject: What
Does Benediction of the Blessed Sacra-
ment Mean?"
On Tuesday morning the forty hours
devotion will conclude with a grand high
mass by three priests, during which the
Rev. Jr. Harnett, v. G.. of Los Angeles
will preach on the Niece ,sty of FIRE.
quent Communion"
People Of every belief and no belief are
most cordially invited to attend.
G. A. r. MEMORIAL
vicksburg post and w. r. c. will meet
at G. A. r. hall at a. m. on Monday
to hold memorial services. They will
form in procession at a. m. in carriages
in front of G. A. R. hall on Second
street and proceed at once to the ceme-
terry, where the graves of all old spiders
will be decorated by the post corps in a
body and the exercises of the day will
take place. All honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors are invited to fall in
with the post Company D, Seventh reg
iment N. G. W.. high school cadets.
Pomona Fife and Drum corps, city
board Of trustees. ministers of all the
churches, teachers and pupils Of the
schools and all people are invited to
unite with us in the exercises Of the day.
GEO. w. FAREINGTON,
Post Commander.
ATIREBUG CONFESSES
The fire at the Hotel Palomares last
night was small affair compared with
today's developments. Confined in the
city Jail is Benjamin r. Crews, who,
since the closing of the hotel year or
more ago, has been the trusted guardian
of the buildings, contents and grounds,
placed there by the directors of the Hotel
Palomares company, for which services
he and wife had made the respectable
sum Of about $40 per month. No reason
is given for the act save an assertion
on his part that within the past few
months he has heard the idle remark
from thoughtlees persons that "it would
be good thing for the town If the hotel
was burned down." or something to that
effect. There were so many evidences
of a bungling attempt on the part Of
some one to set the building on fire that
City Marshal Caldwell and Constables
F. I. Slanker and C. S. Gilbert had all
been busy since their arrival on the
at OClOCh last HlS III
until just before noon today, when the
|closely watched and questioned man,
Crews, gave up the fight and made a
clean breast of the matter to Officers
Slanker and Gilbert, by whom he was
placed in the city Jail to wait an exami-
nation before Justice of the Peace
Barnes at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Had he succeeded in the attempt it
would have been heavy loss to the COM
pany, as there is only about $17, 900 insur-
ance on the building and contents.
which, it Is claimed, when built and
equipped some eight or ten years ago,
cost in the neighborhood of $125, 1000.
The bungling work of Crews was done
with coal oil and match in an attic
out-of-the-way room, locked after him,
and another oil saturation and ignition
eighty feet distant in a hall way-all
well enough planned and would have
proven effective enough had It not been
for the too-quick discovery by some
young business men on their way home
from their stores; the presence of a
patent reel fire hose in the very room,
and the prompt arrival of the fire depart
ment,wh took up the good work already
begun by the near neighbors on the
ground before them, who distinguishe d
the flames with only nominal damage.
There Is much comment on the matter,
as there seems to be no real motive for
the crime.