Miss Lillie Stevenson had a narrow escape…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

eny, an old resident of Kings- ton, now of Silver City, came in Friday to take a look at his old camping grounds and shake hands with his many friends. He will return home Sunday. — Shaft. Miss Lillie Stevenson had a narrow escape on Monday evening. She was riding a somewhat vicious pony, which becoming scared, started off on a full run and turned the corner of the Chinese wash house at the corner of Main and Yankee streets rather abruptly. It was feared the little lady \vould be brushed off and hurt by coming in contact with the building, but fortunately the accident was avoided. Miss Lillie now takes her exercise on foot. The following meagre telegram was the first and so far the only information of the shooting of Major Eckles, which his brother, Samuel Eckles, of this city, has received of the tragedy : Boerne, Tex., September 25 — Maj. Eckles, an ex-officer of the United States army and a son-in-law of Gen. Mason, was mortally shot today by J. C. Saggs ,a neighboring ranchman, on Balcone’s Creek, near Balcone. Saggs has thus far eluded arrest. Should the major die of his wounds this would be the third death in the Eckles family this year.