Items of Interest August 30, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

The population of Cleveland, O., according to the recent census, is 381,768, against 261,353 in 1890, an increase of 120,415 or 46.07 per cent. Cleveland now ranks as the largest city in Ohio, the population of Cincinnati being 325,902. The new census gives Toledo a population of 131,822, against 81,434 in 1890, an increase of 61.88 per cent, and Columbus 125,560, against 83,150 in 1890, an increase of 36.01 per cent.

The population of Greater New York, as indicated by the count just completed at the census office, is 3,437,202. This includes the population of the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, previously announced, and those of Brooklyn, Richmond, and Queens. An approximate estimate of the increase since 1890 shows it to have been 37.9 per cent.

The State Department has received advices from Minister Storer at Madrid to the effect that a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, and general intercourse has been signed provisionally by the minister of state and himself. This practically marks the last step in the complete restoration of relations between Spain and the United States.

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