Violence erupted in the mining town of Dora, Alabama on Saturday night, leaving three men shot in what appears to be an outbreak of disorder. B.B. Kelley was fatally wounded and taken to Birmingham for treatment, shot 'through and through the body' by a man named Walden, who now sits in the Jasper jail. In a separate incident, General Crenshaw was fatally shot by his own brother Thomas, while a third unnamed Black man was also dangerously wounded in the same evening's chaos. Meanwhile, Birmingham braces for a crucial labor showdown as coal miners prepare to present their new wage scale to operators at an 11 o'clock conference Monday morning. The union miners remain a minority among mine employees, but the stakes are high. J.C. Maben, president of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, has already signaled his company likely won't participate, while the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company announced plans for a massive new $1 million steel plant that could produce 800,000 tons annually.

This front page captures the raw tensions of industrial America in 1906, where labor disputes and mining camp violence were reshaping the South. Alabama was emerging as a steel powerhouse to rival Pittsburgh, with companies like Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad planning $7 million in investments over the next two years. The mining industry's labor struggles reflected nationwide battles between unions and corporate power that would define the Progressive Era. The violence in Dora exemplifies the lawless conditions in remote mining camps, where company towns operated beyond traditional law enforcement and disputes often turned deadly. These industrial boom towns were transforming the rural South into an urban, industrial economy.

• A Montana couple traveled all the way from White Sulphur Springs to get married in tiny Tuscumbia, Alabama, after the bride received a surprise telegram from her groom on Thursday announcing his arrival
• The new Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad steel plant will be built near Ensley and cost 'something over $1,000,000' — about $35 million in today's money
• Will Smith, the 1899 U.S. Open golf champion, just defeated four-time champion Willie Anderson by shooting a course record 73 at Chicago Golf Club at Wheaton
• Scottish Rite Masons are gathering in Birmingham this week to confer degrees 'up to the thirty-second' in the city's new Masonic Temple

• That Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company making million-dollar expansion plans? It would be bought by U.S. Steel just one year later in 1907 during a financial panic, creating the South's industrial giant
• Will Smith's golf victory over Willie Anderson happened just as golf was exploding in America — there were only 1,000 golfers in the U.S. in 1890, but over 500,000 by 1906
• The Panama Canal debate mentioned in the 'Week's News' forecast would ultimately choose the lock design over sea-level — a decision that saved the project after the French sea-level attempt had failed spectacularly
• Birmingham's steel boom was so dramatic that the city grew from 3,000 people in 1880 to over 130,000 by 1910, earning it the nickname 'Magic City'
• Those mining camp shootings in Dora reflect a darker reality: mining was America's deadliest occupation, killing over 3,000 workers annually in this era