Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — REPRESENTS CHINA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPRESENTS CHINA.

Yang Yu, the New Mongolian Minister to This Country. The new Chinese Minister to Washington, Vang Yu, who bore a special protest from the Chinese Emperor to Secretary of State Gresham against the enforcement of the Geary act, is only a few degrees removed from royalty and is the most influential representative of China ever commissioned to this country. lie is favorably known to the foreign residents in China, whose esteem he. won by his energetic attention to their interests at the time of the riots at Wuhu, and he is reputed to be an enlightened and very broad-minded official. Yang Yu is accompanied by his wife

and two daughters, with five ladies in waiting. His entire suite, when he disembarked at San Francisco, consisted of eighty-two persons, whose baggage, as weighed at the custom house, aggregated eighty tons.

THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER.