--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1840 to 1841. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 2 number: 15 published: 1841-06-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“From the Peoria Register,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 15 (June 1, 1841): 437." printed_title: From the Peoria Register. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-06-01_2_15 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n15.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-06-01_2_15 start_page: 437 end_page: 437 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-06-01_2_15 publication_year: 1841 --- # From the Peoria Register We learn from Captain Field, of the steamer Glaucus, that a duel was fought near Springfield, our state capital, on Tuesday last, in which one of the parties, named Shaw was killed. The only additional particulars we could learn are these: A chalenge [challenge] passed between two men, of whom Dr. Meriman was the second of one, and Mr. Shaw of the other. Arriving on the ground, Shaw's principal did not appear, and Shaw was of course obliged to take his place.-At the first fire he was shot through the head and died instantly. The assassin fled to Beardstown, whence he took passage in a boat down the river before the news of the affair arrived. Drowned, in Bear Creek, Adams co., on the 29th ult., Mr. Benjamin Franklin Miles. He was engaged at work on the mill dam, and, while reaching for something, his feet slipped, and he fell into the water, and was carried away by the current. His body was not found until the following day.