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* HUE AND CRY. 288 HUERTA. HUE AND CRY. . phrase, derived from the oM ^)rol•e^s> (il gjiii^iiit with horn and voice, used in Knglish hiw lo iloerilH' the pursuit of felons. Wlioever arrested the person pursued was .so far protected that lie required no warrant to justify the arrest; and even if the party turned out to be no felon, no action eould be brought if the arrest was bona tide. Hut it was not only a ground of action, but an oll'ense subject to line and im- prisonment, nuiliciously and wantonly to raise the hue and cry against a person. It was the duty of all persons to join in a hue and cry, and if a person wlio had been robbed, or knew of a rolibcrj'. failed to raise the hue and cry. he was liable to tine or imprisonment, or. according to Konu' authors, to indictment. Hue and cry is now regulated in England by the .Shcriirs .Act. 1887 (50 and .'51 Vict., c. 55). t'onsult: the C(nn- mentarics of Blackstone; Pollock and Maitland, History of Hntilisli Law (2d ed., London and Boston, 1809).' HUEFFER, hyf'fer, Francis (184;i-80). An English uuisical writer and librettist, born in MUnster, Germany. He studied in England and on the Continent, and afterwards settled in Lon- don, and Ijeeame nuisical critic of the Thnes in 1878. He furnished tlic libretto for the operas Culumhiii and Thr '1 rouhiuluur of .Mackenzie, and Thr 8Ucpin;i liadtilti of Cowen. His works in- clude an edition of the works of the troubadour (iuillem de Cabestant (1808); Richard Waffiier and the Muxir of the Futiirc ( 1874) ; The Trouba- dours: A History of I'roreufal Life and Jjitera- ture in the Middle Agex (1878) ; Musical Studies (1880), a collection of articles originally writ- ten for the Times and other newspa|M'rs, trans- lated into Italian by Visetti (1883) ; aiul a trans- lation into Knglish of tlu' correspondence of Wagner and Liszt. He was one of the first to advcx'ate the cause of national English opera. HUELEN. wa'IAn (c.l540-lfiO:!). . Chilean ])atriot. native of .-Xngol. In 150!) he was at the head of tlic forces of .-Vraucania. nnistered to repel the Spaniards, and by copying their meth- ods and teaching his followers to ride the horses the invaders had brought to South .merica, was enabled to wage successful warfare against them, though no longer a young man. He was vic- torious at Valdivia (159!)), near ConcepciOn (IfiOl). near Hio-Hio (lti02), against the enemy with firearni-i ami coats of mail; but his siege of Osorno failed, and he died of old wounds and new before he had succeeded in capturing the fort. HUELVA. wftl'vft. The capital of the Span- ish province of the same name, situated on the deep and navigable estuary of the Odiel River. 10 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Cadiz (Map: Spain. R 4). It is a well-developed town, with a good harbor, and is a railroad centre. Among its buildings is a fine hotel built in 188.3 by an English company. There are also several notable churches, that of San Pedro having for- merly been a Moorish nioscpu'. The Koman atpieduct has been restored, and after centuries of ilisuse, again supplies the city with water. The industries and commerce of the city have become very important, through the exploitation on a large scale of the copiier-mines of the prov- ince. The mining companies have built two large iron piers at the harbor, one of them cost- ing $780,000. The city has also large maohine- sliopa and shipyards, as xmH as various other in- dustries. The L'nited States is represented by a consular agent. Population, in 1900, 20,927. HUENE, lu.i'ni . Kaiii,, Haron von lloiuingcn (]s;!7 1900). (urnian politician, born in Cologne, and educated in IJcrlin. He entered the army, and after serving in the wars of 1804, 18li(i, and 1870-71, became a member of the Prus- sian liou.se of Deputies (1877). In 1884 he was elected to the Heichslag, where he rose to prom- inence as a leader of the Centre, and author (1885) of the /.(■«• Ilucne. rescinded in 189;}, by the terms of which all ta.xes on cereals and cat- lie, save 15,000,000 nuirks, were dividcil among the various parochial governments of Prussia. In 189;i he lost his leadership of the Clericals by his compromise with the Administration on the military budget, and failed of reelection in that year, and again in 1895. But iintil his death he remained a member of the Prussian Council of State, to which he had Ix'cn appointed in I8'.)0. HUEPPE, hyp'pe, Ferdina.nd (1852—). A (Jcrnian bacteriologist, born at Heddesdorf, and educated in Berlin. In 1890 he was appointed professor of hygiene in the (Jerman I'niversity at Prague. He established the fact that stibter- raneous water is free from germs, an<i contended that the source of infection from bacteria is the decayed organism on which the bacillus feeds, llueppe did much to sim|)lify disinfection anil to promote inoculation with 'benign' bacteria. He first advanced the theory that the power of 'nitrifying' microbes to absorb carbonic o.xide, even in the dark, is due to the oxidation accom- panying the ammoniacal preparation of salt- petre. He wrote: Die Formen der Hakterien (1886); Veber die Bczichunijen der Fiiulnis zu den Infcktionskrankheiten (1887); Veber den Kanipf rjeyen die Infektionskrunkheiten (1889) ; Uie Methoden der liakterieufo-rschuny (5th ed. 1891); Die Choleraepidemie in Hamburg, tS92 (1893); Veber die Ursachen der OUrungen und Infcktionskrankheiten (1893) ; atunrissen- sehaftliche Einfiihrung in die liakteriologie (1890); Zur Hansen- und Socialhygieine der (Irieehen (1897): and Handbuch der Hygieine (1899). Hui^RCAL-OVERA, wflr'kiil i*i va'ra. . town of Soul 111 astern Spain, in the Province of Almeria. situated in a broad and fertile valley surrounded by mountains, 10 miles from the Mediterranean foast (Map: Spain, D 4). It has straight and wide .streets and several ]ilazas. on one of which stands a handsome church. The town is connected by rail with .Murcia. and be- tween it and the coast are the silver and copper mines of the Sierra de Almagrera. Population, in 1900. 15,774. HUERTA, w!r'tj"i, Vicem-e GarcIa ok la (1734 H7 I. A Spanish poet and critic. He was born at Zafra, in Estremadura. and spent the greater part of his life in Madrid, where he held the otTue of principal librarian of the Royal Library, and where he died. He" early distin- guished himself by his poetic talent. His tragedy Raijuel. founded upon the story of the love of King -Alfonso VIII. for the .Jewess Rachel, was received with great enthusiasm when first pro- duced in 1778. and is still considered a work of some merit. Huerta was a most zealous, but not always a wise or skillful, defender of the ancient Spanish national taste against the Gal-