Accident To Aeronauts

Kureka, Cal., July 6. - Professor George Weston, the aeronaut, and his assistant, H. S. Colton of Aberdeen, Wah„ were fearfully crushed while the former was attempting an ascensión an3 parachute jump. When the balloon was inflated and the restraining ropes cast off it shot up sixty feet with Colton tangled in thé ropes. He was dropped to the earth and sustained fractures and bruises from which he will die. Weston clung to the parachute and a strong wind carried hira with terrific force through the tops of some trees and he, too, dropped to earth, crushed and mangled in a terrible manner.