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Show q- Di aeoxe. Mrsi Alice Lougee, an old lady about 70 years of age, was found dead in bed at her residence in this city on Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon. She lived alone, and was last seen alive on Monday night. She probabely died during that night as from lhf. appearance of the body she had been dead for some time. A grand child, a boy about 10 years old. was the first to learn of her death. He went and knocked at her door about midday on Wednesday, and upon receiving ho response, looked in the window and saw his grandmother dead on the bed. She had apparently had a violent fit of coughing which caused strangulation and death. Her nearest relation is a son at Eureka, excepting young grandchildren grand-children here The deceased was a very energetic woman, and so spry that her neighbors had no idea that she was even ill. much less dead, and the news startled all by its suddenness. Sister Lougee was a faithful Latter-day Saint, nnd a very zealous worker in all things wherein her' services were needed. The funeral services were held on Thursday, |