NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19804, 1 June 1926, Page 10

NEWS BY WIRELESS.

NEW YORK TIMES’S SERVICE.

(Pub United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 31. The following news items broadcasted from the New York Times building by the Australian Press Association, were picked up by Mr Shrimpfon, Jun. ‘New York, May 31: Evangeline Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army in the

United States, is dangerously ill, and yesler day suffered a serious relapse. Her physicians, however, hope for her recovery. At Marion, Ohio, the corner stone of the Harding Memorial Tomb in honour of the late President Warren Harding, who died in office, will be laid to-day. Fifty thousand persons will attend the ceremony. News from Ithaca (New York) states that Leonard M. Spear, a local resident who was bitten by a diamond-backed Texas rattlesnake in the Cornell University laboratory on Friday, has a good chance of recovery. Two doses of anti-venom serum, which were sent from the Bronx Garden. New York City, were administered to him. The serum was rushed by train and car to Ithaca. Washington, May 31.—President Coolidge, in dedicating a monument to John Ericsson, the designer of the famous “monitor” naval vessel used in the American Civil War, and which revolutionised naval warfare, paid a tribute to the greatness of the Swedish race, of which Ericsson was a member. The Crown Prince of Sweden was present in an official capacity at the dedication ceremony. The most notable wedding Washington has yet seen took place on' Saturday at noon, when Ailsa, only daughter of Mr A. W. Mellon (secretary to the Treasury), waft married to David Bruce, eldest son of Senator Bruce, of Maryland. President and Mrs Cool ridge were present at the ceremony. The Northern Baptist Convention, which is meeting here, placed on record its support of the Anti-Saloon League in the present phase of the prohibition fight.