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Show I"BIFE" ANSWERS DEATH CALL IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Feb, 27. Frank Ellison, known as "Biff." r familiar character in this city, is dead from pneumonia. He is said to havo been the youngest officer in the Union army, having- run( away from his home In Philadelphia' and received a Lieutenant's commission nt the age of 15. Ellison- was once a member of the atock exchange and belonged to tho leading clubs. In 1S93 he assaulted another an-other broker and was sentenced to flvo years In the penitentiary. Efforts wero made by influential friends to procure his pardon, but It was granted only a few months before the expiration of the scntfmce. i |