Why won't Java catch an incompatible types error? [closed]

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I was fiddling around with try ... catch statements in Java, and I came across an unexpected result.

When I run this code:

public class Test 
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int res = 418;
        try {
            res = "foobar";
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Uh oh!");
        }
        System.out.println(res);
    }
}

I get this error in the console:

Test.java:7: error: incompatible types: String cannot be converted to int
            res = "foobar";
                  ^
1 error

Since the (purposefully) problematic code is in a try block, I would expect this output:

Uh oh!
418

I have two questions:

1. Why am I getting the first and not the second?
2. How can I update my code to catch the incompatible types error?