The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-26
THE SITUATION IN HAVANA
AMERICAN TROOPS BEGIN REC U-
 LAR PATROL OF CITY.
To Guard Against Possible Disorders One Man Killed and Three Wounded Saturday yNight-Christmas Among the SOldiers-Turkeys $7 Each-Lee Study ing Route for the Military Parade.


 SoIiiers-Turkeys $7 Each-Lee Study ing Route for the Military Parade.
 Havana, Dec. 25.-The United States troops have begun this morning a reg ular patrol of the city of Havana, in or der to guard against possible disorders. tive quiet The bando issued on Friday by Captain General Jiminez Castella- nos, prohibiting crowds from assemb- ling in the street, have been generally observed. Last night there was some disturbance, said to have been caused by liquor in Monsterrat place. A gun was fired at midnight from a roof at a group oc people below, and many shots were returned at the figures vaguely seen on the roof. An unidentified man was killed and three were wounded in other affrays.
 Christmas at Camp Quomados was as lively as the troops could make it with slender materials. Turkeys at $7 each were scarce, and everybody said that, with the heat at summer temperature and the hedgerows brilliant with flow CTS, the day did not seem much like Christmas. All the company messes of the 18th Iowa, the 1st North Carolina, 161st Indiana regiments held extra spreads out of the company funds, with gifts from well-to-do members. The army rations were supplemented by fruit, canned goods, sweet potatoes and, sometimes, chicken. The 9th Mis- souri regiment, the last to arrive, had no chance to prepare an extra dinner, so the men dined on fresh beef, rice and beans. One battalion reached camp yesterday, the other two marching to- day distance of eight miles over a dusty road.
 All the regimental bands played and the men were granted leave within a mile radius of the camp. Company F of the 161st Indiana regiment had a cactus tree, with present for every body stuck on the points, as, for ir- stance, hard tack, beans, salt pork and candles. The officers of the 161st h. diana indulged after dinner in songs and speech making, with several solo dances. At Fl Vedado the 8th and 10th regular infantry regiments dined well at the expense of the company funds.
 Major General Lee and his staff par took of a modest dinner. General Lee had number of live turkeys available, but as the birds are very lean, he de- cided to keep them, on the chance of improvement for the New Years feast after the flag raising. General Lee spent most of the day on horseback, studying the best route for the New York day parade The streets are too narrow to allow the troops to march past the pal ace, so that the route will probably be through the central park to Terro, the Havana suburb. General Lee expects to have 11,0O0 men, including the Gu bans, in the military procession.
 Major General Butler will go to Ma tanzas and Cienfuegos tomorrow night on official business. The American troops are about to take possession of San Ambrosias hospital. c. s. Beaver, the United States postal agent in Ha- l vana, has complained to the postmaster general of the irregularity in the arriv- al of the mails from the United States.