Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The arrival of large quantities of
cotton at Providence, II. L., recently
is taken by business men as an indi-
cation of continued activity in the
mills If the state Two steamships
from Norfolk, the Parthian and the
Juniata, arrived, Wednesday, with a
total of 5000 bales, the largest single
day receipts of cotton in the history
OF Providence. More than $4,000 bales
We're received here during the past
two weeks and about $1,000 are ex-
peCtod, this week. The Juniata runs
to Boston direct regularly, but was
sent To Providence ON account of the
rush Of cotton shipments.
More than 100 hunters roamed the
Westboro, Mass, woods, Tuesday, in
search of deer. Grover c. Macker of
East Main street shot a 120-pound doe
near the farm of S. Eugene Brigham.
Robert c. Harrington had a lively en-
counter with big buck. While Mr..
Harrington, who had wounded the
buck, was preparing to kill him, the
animal kicked him, knocked him down
and escaped. After recovering his gun
Mr.. Harrington chased the buck from
Gilmores Hill two miles into South
boro, where the animal was last seen
running over the lawn at the Choate
residence.
Neglect to shut off the current from
an electric iron in the factory of the
#. NJ. Hoyt Chloe Co., at Manchester,
n. H., Monday night, was the cause of
a fire which. although of small pro-
portions in itself caused a water
damage from the sprinkler service es-
timated at nearly $4,000. For some
time no one could be found who knew
where the water could be shut off,
and in the meantime the stitch room.
where the blaze started, and the max
ing and other rooms on the floors
below were flooded. In these rooms
there thousands of pairs of shoes in
process of manufacture and all of
them were damaged.
Dropping comfortably out of sight
when he left his deer hunter eompdn-
ions, last Thursday morning, in the
Camp ON the old Griffith lumber JOB
on Mt Tabor Vt, not the smallest
trace of David Dillingham; of West
PaWlet, for whom searching partles
have been securing the vicinity since
last Friday, has beer found ana 1t
was believed Tuesday. that there Is
hardly a chance the man is awe. SIN
~ years old Mr.. Dillingham; was not
strong physically, having been subject
to sudden attacks of illness. He had no
food with him and the weather mas
been severe /, is barely possible that
he wandered onto a tran that lea 10
some remotely situated dwellings
where he has been care for
Local officials of the Boston ~
Maine are puzzled to account Tor the
presence of 43 dead fowl and chickens
that were discovered slowed away
between some large iron tanks, WHICH
arrived at Somersworth, N. H., late
Monday. on a fiat car from Erie, Ia.
The tanks were consigned to ma
chinerv concern Of SomerSWorth, put
there was nothing to show now the
birds happened to be with them. An
examination showed that the Dlfds
had either been stolen and hidden on
the fat car by the thief somewhere
on the route with the probable IN
tention of recovering them before the
car was sent on, or that they might
have been part of shipment of poui-
try that had died Of suffocation ana
had been transferred to the Hat car by
train hands,