Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-30
PAUL HUST|NG DIES
IN HUNTING M|SHAP
RECEIVES DISCHARGE OF BROTH
ER'S GUN WHILE SHOOT
ING DUCKS.
ON OUTING ON RUSH LAKE
Passes Away at Farm House Six
Hours After Accident-EIected to
the Senate in November, 1914.
Was 81 Years Old.

Ripon, Oct. 22-United States Sen
ator Paul o. Husting, democrat, was
accidentally and fatally shot Sunday
afternoon by his brother, GustaVe,
while duck hunting at Rush lake, near
here. Senator Husting died at 10:45
O'Clock Sunday night at the farm house
of c. A. Blackburn, near Pickett.
The senator remained conscious
while he was being taken to the Black
burn home. Before doctors reached
his bedside, however, he became IN
conscious and Gid not know those
about him again. He realized, on the
way to the Blackburn home, that the
end was near.
Senator Husting and his brother,
Gustave, were rowing in separate
boats when the tragedy occurred, the
boat of the former being just ahead.
The senator saw flock of ducks and
called to his brother to shoot.
The senator suddenly rose from a
STOPPING position, evidently thinking
that the shot would pass over his head.
His brother, aiming at the ducks.
pulled the trigger. Senator Husting
was in direct line with the shot, and
the full charge penetrated his back at
close range
He fell back in the boat. His broth
or hurriedly rowed to his side and then
10 the shore. Friends were summoned
and the senator was taken to the
Blackburn farm house. At first it was
thought the shot had penetrated his
shoulder, and that perhaps he had not
been fatally injured Several physi-
clans were summoned. They saw that
the senator was in critical condi-
ton.
Senator Husting was the first Unit
ed States senator from Wisconsin to
be elected by direct vote of the peo-
pie, defeating former Gov F. E. Nc
Govern in November, 1914, by 967
votes. He succeeded Isaac Stephen
son In the senate on March 4, 1915.
His term expires on March 4, 1921.
His first political office was a district
attorney of Dodge county, to which he
was elected in 1902 and reelected in
1904. He was elected to the seate SEN
ate In 1906 and reelected in 1910.
Soon after he went to Washington,
the senator became one of the admin
istration leaders. He has been Wis
consin's heroic figure since the United
States declared war against Germany.
Throughout his brief career at the ma
tional capitol he stood squarely back
of President Wilson in all matters
pertaining to a vigorous and success
full prosecution of the war
He was Wisconsin's spokesman in
the United States senate on the side of
America, and his stand won him many
friends among republicans and demo-
Gratis who did not support him when
he ran for election.
The senator waged an uncompro-
missing fight in his own state to check
the work of German propagandists.
He was born in Fond du Lac on
April 25, 1866, a son of John P. Hust-
ting and Mary M. Husting, nee Ju-
neau, his mother being the fourth
youngest of sixteen children born to
Solomon Juneau, founder of Milwau-
kee. His father emigrated from the
grand duchy of Luxembourg to the
United States N 1855.
Senator Husting moved with his par
ents to Mayville, Wis, in 1876, where
he received a common school educa-
ton, and at the age of II years he be-
came successfully clerk in a general
store. railway postal clerk, mailing
clery in the Wisconsin state prison
and assistant bookkeeper in the Office
of the secretary of state. He entered
the University of Wisconsin Law
school, passed the state bar examina-
ton and was admitted to the bar in
1895.
He is survived by his mother. six
brothers and a sister-Otto c., his pri-
vate secretary; Max, South Dakota:
Leo, in railroad service at Kaukauna.
B. A. and P. J. Husting, who are at
torneys in Fond du Lac; Gustave and
Mrs. Belle Lamoreaux, both of May
vile.