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Roumania. At least 50 persons lost their lives in the Roumanian floods. At Keresztes five women fled to the roof of a house which presently burst into flames because of the overturning of a stove. To escape being roasted alive, they leaped into the flood, which surged up to the second story, and were drowned. Scores of houses were swept away in the Torda district...
...According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...will cast you an iron house, with a cast-iron bathtub upstairs and a cast-iron stove in the kitchen. Within 50 miles of our works, we will erect the whole eleven tons of iron for you at a cost of only ?425 ($2,125). You will find the rooms nine feet high, with the living room, kitchen, larder and coal room on the first floor, and three bedrooms and a bath on the second. Fireplaces and a hot-water heating system are provided. Many of our cast-iron tanks are still in use, unpainted, after 100 years...
...College Hall being in frightful shape, the undergraduates visited that place of worship by night and ripped it asunder. None was disciplined, it being hinted that the President and trustees were secretly delighted. But a new chapel arose, "without a chimney and never profaned by a stove...
...moment later he saw that it was no small boat, but a submarine. The steamer quivered. She had run on the port side of the submarine just forward of the conning tower and had stove a deep hole into the undersea ship...