People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — POWDERLY TO RESIGN. [ARTICLE]

POWDERLY TO RESIGN.

He Will Abandon Labor Agitation for the Law. New York, July 26.—General Master Workman Terence V. PowderJy of the Knights of Labor is to resign, and his resignation is to be accepted. The news leaked out Monday night and was confirmed by people high in the councils of the order. Powderly has been studying law for some time, and is in a position to begin practice in the Pennsylvania courts. All that delays him now is his duty as general master workman. The knights will not ask him to retire. It is believed that T. B. McGuire will be Powderly’s successor. An extraordinary invention is the one on which Edison is now at work, namely, to save the 90 per cent of energy of coal now wasted in its combustion. Should he succeed the cost of everything made by electric or steam power would be cheapened and the necessaries and luxuries of life brought within range of ail to a greater extent than was accomplished by the invention of the steam engine. The prior ciple for which he is striving is the development of electric cunents immediately from the coal. In case he succeeds there would be no further use lor steam boilers and engines. .