| Show RIOT cartridges new kind of ammunition to be used in suppression of riots the war department has sent notices to governors of each state that it is 13 prepared to supply them upon udon demand and according to their legal allowan allowances cleA with not riot cartridges this 1 Is a new form of ammunition prepared by the experts of the ordnance bureau to en able officers of the law and soldiers to repel rioters with the least possible I 1 loss oss ot of life to the innocent 15 1 stander the shell is lile like ther r 1 eab anuk pa 9 IA ir y important exception th that 1 1 instead t of the long nickel plated and steel clad bullet two balls are placed in the mouth the design was apparently to secure something of greater range rang e than buckshot et not dangerous to persons at a distance the cartri cartridge Oge Is 1 charged with about thirty tour four grains of smokeless powder the balls are made of a mixture of lead and tin in fit proportion of 16 to 1 and are blight slight ly IY coated with |
