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Show NEW ENGLAND FLOODS. Cotton Mills In Number of Towns Compelled to Close Down. The rivers of eastern Now England nro beginning to show tho effects of the warm rains which havo prevailed for several days. Tho Merrlmac, the cotton mill river of Now Hampshlro and Massachusetts, and tho Penobscot and Kennebec ln Malno are rapidly rising and threatening serious dam. ago. At Lawronco, Mass., tho height of tho river Is causing inconvenience to tho locla mills, and a portion of tho plant ot tho Chnraplon International Paper company has been forced to shut down. Tho Shawnshccn and Splckct rivers, tributaries of tho Merrlmac, Mer-rlmac, aro out of their banks. In Malno thero Is apprehension ln tho lumbering sections. |